Today’s Reading, Romans 1-4
Focal Scripture: Romans 1:25 “They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.”
We all make exchanges in our daily lives. If you go to work you exchange your time for a paycheck. If you go to the store you exchange your money for goods. You might even exchange your plans to spend time with people who are more important. The important point to notice is that we all make an exchange during the day.
In the reading today Paul is speaking to the church in Rome. They had some disagreements happening in the church centered around salvation and sin in the lives of others. Here Paul explains why lost people act the way they do. They make an exchange. They take the truth about God and believe the lie of the world. Then people worship the created things in life instead of the creator of the universe. What ever you worship and serve demonstrates where your heart points.
For believers today we must realize that the people we speak with worship and serve something. Some people we come in contact with will worship and serve a job, family, prestige and even power. Everything about them points towards a heart bent away from God. This is when we must show them that they his path leads to death.
For others we speak with they will worship and serve the Lord. They will make ever my effort to live for him and make Jesus known. Mistakes will be made on the path but they want to follow after Christ.
Then we will run into a group of people that say they worship and serve the Lord but are actually deceived. This group is hard to communicate with because they are convinced they know the truth but miss the mark of biblical Christianity. They say the right words but their lifestyle shows what they worship. This group also needs the truth and to be shown the truth of the gospel.
Our goal is to proclaim the truth to everyone. We have to understand that people worship and serve many things in their life. However, if it is not the Lord they have set themselves up for judgement.
Let’s proclaim truth and show people whom they should worship and serve.
Tomorrow I plan on reading Romans 5-7
