Spend time in prayer and silence with God, asking Him to meet with you and speak to you.
Bible Reading
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 worshipped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to 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.
– Romans 1:24-27
Devotion
Now we see the result of man’s rebellion against God. Man’s degeneration is measured by his perversion of sex. Notice the repeated phrase in this chapter, “God gave them over…” I once had a seminary professor comment on this text. He said, “The most tragic moment in human history is when a holy God takes His hands off of sinful man and says, ‘Thy will be done…Have it your way!’” There comes a point in time when God “hands us over” to those things we so strongly desire. But notice that when this happens, there are consequences for man’s rebellion against God. One must wonder how much longer will God tolerate it and be patient with us? This type of rebellion is vindictive of persons whose “thinking became futile” and whose “foolish hearts were darkened.” James writes, “A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” When we accept the lies of Satan, we set ourselves up against the truth of God. God’s truth will always win out in the end!
The Big Question
What lies of Satan have you believed? What does it mean to be a “double-minded” man? In what ways do you worship and serve created things rather than God?
Conclude your time in prayer and silence, reflecting on what God revealed to you today.