After last week's Revelation study of God's final judgments, this week's lesson is about why they are deserved. I have often read about sin's downward spiral in the latter half of Romans 1, but this time I felt compelled to write it in, if not poetry, a more fitting format for mankind's driven descent into darkness.
Wrath
Because people--
suppress truth,
knew God but didn’t
thank or glorify.
So, thinking became
futile
hearts darkened.
Claimed wisdom, became
fools.
Exchanged the glory
of God
for images of
men, birds, animals,
reptiles.
So God gave them over--
to sinful desires
sexual impurity.
Exchanged truth about
God for a lie
worshiped created,
not Creator.
To shameful lusts
homosexuality
depraved minds
every kind of
wickedness,
evil, greed,
depravity,
envy, murder, strife,
deceit, malice.
Gossips, slanderers,
God haters,
insolent, arrogant,
boastful.
Invent ways of doing
evil,
disobey parents.
No understanding, no
fidelity,
no love, no mercy.
Know such deeds
deserve death,
continue doing
them,
approve others
who do.
And that is why—
Wrath.
Romans 1
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