Friday, January 26, 2024
A REPROBATE MIND INVENTS 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, covenant
breakers, 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 must 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. AMEN
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