INVENTING EVIL THINGS!

INVENTING EVIL THINGS!

Rom 1:28-32

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

Our world is full of new technology, the products of someone’s imagination. I am, however, stricken with the thought of “inventing” evil things. Someone has said that “necessity is the mother of invention” but I have to wonder at the necessity of evil and the mind of the man who invents it.

From verse 28, we learn that God gave them over [gave up restraining] to a reprobate mind. That small evil – unrestrained – led to the enormous list of evils in the verses that follow. When we read it we pick out one or two sins that belong to us and we then think ourselves incapable of all the rest. We might own deceit but we are offended at the thought of being a murderer. Yet it seems to be a package and not a list at all. Each evil, all these evils, springs forth from a reprobate mind.

Take the work of termites as an example. They work undetected from the inside out until the whole house is ready to collapse beneath its own load. Onlookers wonder how a house with such lovely paint could fall so tragically. So it is with sin. Our mind invents the evil and, with enough time, our life collapses upon itself. How could so many wonderful “role models” be seen reading a script of apology for evil deeds? Sin undetected spreads and makes a person brazen. They think they will never be caught. Suddenly everything collapses around them. You can’t treat termites with a fresh coat of paint! You can’t stop the spread of sin by adding good deeds to an evil life. Only God has the cure for sin.

Prov 4:23

23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Dear Lord, guard my heart and mind today as I yield myself to you. Keep me from those little sins that grow into enormous evils. AMEN