The Truth of God

 Meditations on Romans

 July 14, 2021

The Truth of God

They traded the truth about God for a lie. So they worshiped and served the things God created instead of the Creator himself, who is worthy of eternal praise! Amen.

Romans 1:25

Read: Romans 1:24-27

The stories of creation are in Genesis 1-3. In Genesis 1 and 2 we see God’s perspective on the creation of human beings:

So God created human beings in his own image.

    In the image of God he created them;

    male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:27

Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib of man, and he brought her to the man. “At last!” the man exclaimed. “This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken from ‘man.’” This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.

Genesis 2:22-24

In the light of God’s creation, Paul contrasts how humankind had traded the truth of God for a lie. In today’s passage, Paul is not condemning individuals for their practice of homosexuality as much is he is noting how all of creation has turned away from God’s intended order.

My Takeaway: Almost everywhere in today’s culture, people are rewriting the Bible and substituting their own thinking for the truth of God. (See Judges 17:6, Prov. 21:2, and 2 Timothy 4:3) May I never succumb to the temptation to follow suit, may I take the road less traveled and always seek the truth of God.

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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