Corona Devo 934

The crazy thing about the Bible is that it is timeless.  This Book that is over 2,000 years old is relevant and timely to right now and to us today.

Don't believe me?  

Believe God and see if His Word addresses the cultural-shifts and changes/acceptances/moral decay and the blatant opposition to Him and His order of things.  And His ultimate dominion over all of it. 

God sees us, and He sees our hearts.  He knows that we all know Him, because how could we not?  Indeed, there is no way to rationally deny the (miraculous) conception of a baby or the blaze-of-beauty within a sunset, because God has made it obvious to us.  We have no excuse.

But people make so many excuses, don't they?  Yes, they know God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks (Romans 1:21).

And instead of accepting God's truth (and beauty), so many today create their own truth, and worship anything else, except the One that we were created to worship.

If...to you, (like me), all of this just doesn't seem right...  If it doesn't feel right, regardless of how much, and how loud, and how glamorized the world makes-it-out to be...

If much of today's accepted norms and pushed-agendas seem like foolishness compared to what God says in the Bible...and yet, if we are being made to feel more and more like what we believe (in Christ) is foolishness to the world...

If you are feeling any or all of these things today...then read the Bible.

The crazy thing about the Bible is that it is timeless.  This book that is over 2,000 years old is relevant and timely to right now and to us today.

But God shows his anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness. (19) They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. (20) For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.  

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(21) Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. (22) Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. (23) And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.  

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(24) So God abandoned them to do whatever shameful things their hearts desired. As a result, they did vile and degrading things with each other’s bodies. (25) They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen.

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(26) That is why God abandoned them to their shameful desires. Even the women turned against the natural way to have sex and instead indulged in sex with each other. (27) And the men, instead of having normal sexual relations with women, burned with lust for each other. Men did shameful things with other men, and as a result of this sin, they suffered within themselves the penalty they deserved.  

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(28) Since they thought it foolish to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their foolish thinking and let them do things that should never be done. (29) Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. (30) They are backstabbers, haters of God, insolent, proud, and boastful. They invent new ways of sinning, and they disobey their parents. (31) They refuse to understand, break their promises, are heartless, and have no mercy. (32) They know God’s justice requires that those who do these things deserve to die, yet they do them anyway. 

Worse yet, they encourage others to do them, too.  ~Romans 1:17-32

Believe God and see if His Word addresses the cultural-shifts and changes/acceptances/moral decay and the blatant opposition to Him and His order of things.  And His ultimate dominion over all of it.  

If...to you, (like me), all of this just doesn't seem right...you are right.

But God sees us, He sees our hearts, and He gives us His Word.  The crazy thing about it is that the Bible is timeless.  This Book that is over 2,000 years old is relevant and timely to right now and to us today.

Keep reading it.  


Blessings,

sarah

https://sarahsundy04.blogspot.com

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