Category: Devotions

Our God is an impartial Judge. He is infinite, eternal and unchangeable in His justice. He judges fairly and correctly. There is no misjudgement with God. He renders to every man according to his deeds. We cannot escape the All-seeing eyes of God. All who live in righteousness will receive from Him a righteous man’s reward. All who live an evil life, obey not the truth, will receive God’s judgement – tribulation and anguish!

God is good to allow time for sinners to repent of their sins by delaying His judgement. When a man sins without restrain and think that he can get away with sin time and again, he is hereby warned. Judgement will surely come. God has withheld judgement so that he may have the opportunity to be awakened of his grave danger and quickly repent!

Truly, Jesus gave the Christian disposition as one who has a poverty of spirit and one who mourns for his sins. This is the beginning of salvation grace when men is willing to humble themselves and repent of their sins and come to Jesus Christ for cleansing. There is only one way that man can have their sins forgiven. In the blood of the Lamb!

After Apostle Paul saved, God transformed his heart, taking away all the hatred and filling it with love and joy and peace. Hallelujah! Christ lived in him, giving a total transformation. This is the power of the gospel. Amen.

Fallen men not only sidelined their Creator by worshipping dumb idols made with their own hands, but their mind become so twisted that the institution of marriage between a man and a woman that God has ordained since time immemorial was overturned. Such shameful passions of utmost perverseness was made a way of life. When such inordinate affections took place, we see in biblical history that God’s judgement was nigh. Sodom and Gomorrah were cities that God judged with fire and brimestones falling from heaven to completely consume these cities.

When men wilfully and blatantly choose to reject God after He reveals something of Himself both in nature and in His Word to them, God gives men over to their sin. This is the permissive will of God. It described God’s judicial act of handing someone over to suffer the consequences of his wrongdoing. This described the present wrath of God upon men (Rom. 1:18) who chooses to go out of the way to satisfy the inordinate lusts of their own hearts through immoral behaviour.

The person described in verse 21 as having a “foolish heart” lacks spiritual sight. He wilfully ignores God. He is an ungodly person who turned his back on God and revealed the state of his lawless heart (v22). The greatest fool of all, therefore, is a person with the greatest intelligence who disobeys God. Paul uses the Greek word “moros” from which we receive the English “moron”. There is a stubborn streak in the person described here.

This was Paul’s concern. And he is articulating in these verses the foolishness of depraved man void of the truth concerning the true God. He has made it his God-given responsibility to make the truth known to a lost world. The challenge is indeed great, where are the labourers? Let us pray that God would raise men and women to work in the ripe harvest field to usher souls into His eternal kingdom. May you be a happy volunteer. Amen.

Romans 1:21-22 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Without God’s truth, man is lost. In rejecting God’s revealed truth, man is foolish. In self-conceit, man thinks he is wise. In truth, he is fearfully awaiting a time of judgment. Jesus tells us of the rich man who died and found him tormented in the fires of hell. He realised that there is no way out of this eternal punishment. He requested that word be sent to his relatives so that they may wise up and not end up like him. It was too late for him to escape and he lived in eternal regret. A truly frightening scenario.

The people in the world are sadly moving headlong to destruction. They may not realise their precarious situation. These wise professors, endowed with the best wisdom of this world, are really but fools in the final analysis. The Apostle Paul comments on the lost estate of man and still acting very proudly. I recalled priding myself an agnostic before my conversion. I would tell Christians who tried to share with me the Christian faith to show me proof of God and I will believe. Otherwise, how can I believe?

The turning point came in my life when I was shown the truth that Jesus is the living and true God from John’s gospel.

Romans 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

When God created the universe, the earth was the focus. When God created the earth, man was the focus. Man was created only after God had prepared a most habitable paradise for his enjoyment. God placed man in charge of His creation. Only man is made in the image of God, not the angels nor the animal kingdom. Man has the capability to reflect the character and attributes of God. What is God? The Westminster Shorter Catechism states, “God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable in His Being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth.” In a limited way, man reflect God in His attributes.