Our Own Way of Thinking

Readings:
II Chronicles 29
Romans 1:18-32

Focus:
Romans 1:28: "Thus, because they have not seen fit to acknowledge God, he has given them up to their own depraved way of thinking, and this leads them to break all rules of conduct."

One objection that people often raise to Christianity is that they feel that it is mean of God to punish people (as they think). Why, they ask, should God be vengeful?

What people often do not consider, however, is that God is really just letting people have the consequences of what they have chosen to do. God created the universe. He created nature. He created us. He created everything to work in a certain way. When we decide to ignore God and do things our own way, things don't always work the way they're supposed to work, because we're not doing things the way they were created to work. It's as if we had a new product and ignored the instructions, and used it in a way that was likely to make it break.

So when we do things our own way, quite often bad consequences happen. It's just the natural result of using ourselves and others in ways that we were not made to be used. It's our fault if things go wrong. God isn't waiting to get us; we "get" ourselves.

It's much better to follow the instructions--the Bible.