28-32Since they didn’t bother to acknowledge God, God quit bothering them and let them run loose. And then all hell broke loose: rampant evil, grabbing and grasping, vicious backstabbing. They made life hell on earth with their envy, wanton killing, bickering, and cheating. Look at them: mean-spirited, venomous, fork-tongued God-bashers. Bullies, swaggerers, insufferable windbags! They keep inventing new ways of wrecking lives. They ditch their parents when they get in the way. Stupid, slimy, cruel, cold-blooded. And it’s not as if they don’t know better. They know perfectly well they’re spitting in God’s face. And they don’t care—worse, they hand out prizes to those who do the worst things best!
WOW! This seems like a comentary of today’s society. If you don’t believe me, watch some of the award shows and see who wins the awards…Is it the best or is it the one that shocks/pushes the limits the most? Even shock jocks like Howard Stern aren’t shocking to us anymore because of how our society has socially accepted the vilest debauchery that you can imagine.
The thing that worries me the most is in the first part of verse 28. It said because they (unbelievers) fail to acknowledge God, that God withdrew from them and allowed them to do what they wanted to. God did not turn His back on the sinner but we must remember that GOD HATES SIN AND SO SHOULD WE!!! We should always love the sinner and reach out to them just as Christ did but we have to learn to hate sin. Even the sin that our flesh so craves.
So what is God asking you about today even as you read this? Do you acknowledge Him in your life consistently? Are you praying and learning to hate Sin more and more each day? Is there a certain sin that you can’t live without?
