No Room For Excuses!

"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities- His eternal power and divine nature- have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator- who is forever praised. Amen.
Because of this, God gave them over to the shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men,  and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought no to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanders, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things buy also approve of those who practice them."
-Romans 1:20-32

These verses describe the course of the world. The sins of the people and why the world is the way it is. At the same point it is also proof that God has left no room for us to make excuses for our sins and not believing in Him.

While reading these verses, I couldn't help realize that although  they were written by Paul in about A.D. 57 or about 1,956 years ago, nothing has changed. Our world today is just as Paul describes it in the pages of Romans almost 2,000 years later.

Just like then, People today choose to reject God and God allows them to do so. God is a gentleman, He lets us choose our "Freedom" from Him. Even though He knows the outcome of our choices. He know that in due time our "Freedom" from Him will turn into slavery. We will become slaves to our own sins. We will loose the freedom to choose not to sin.

Today's question: Does life without God look like freedom to you?
Look closely, there is no worse slavery than slavery to sin. (NIV)

Father, I see that our world is really no different than it was 2,000 years ago. We are committing the same sins that the people did back then. We as the human race have not learned from our own mistakes. Father, we are in Your hands. I am very grateful that You are the gentleman that You are and do not force Yourself on to us. Thank You for loving us enough to allow us to choose You. I pray Lord, that we will choose You. That we will turn away from our sins and turn towards You. Although I know that our world will continue to turn from You and continue to sin, I pray that You will show Yourself to all of us  Give us an uncontrollable desire to know You. Give us no room for excuses not to know You.
In Jesus name, Amen.
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