Listening & Learning — A Devotional

Romans 1

The Penalty

The Penalty. Romans 1: 27 The laws of our land have changed because people want a lifestyle of their own choosing. The moral and sexual conditions God designed, including the restrictions God placed upon men, have been deliberately rejected. We must remember, and help others remember, that there are consequences to expect from sin. "The wages of sin is death."

People now rely on the health care system or on the support of caregivers to deal with the results of homosexuality. Those who contract AIDS and other STDs think a cure has been found that allows them to do what they want and still not suffer the consequences. Perversions deemed okay by men are still perversions, and payday will always come.

God established the standards of human contact and experiences for the moral, spiritual, and physical welfare of mankind. When these are deviated from, there will be serious negative results, both for the individual who sins and for others who are around that person. Our sin does affect others whether we like to admit it or not. Governments may make a sin legal as far as the leaders of our country are concerned, but it is still a sin. Most people may agree with a sin being engaged in, but it is still a sin. Churches may allow sinful practices now that were not allowed in the past, but they are still sins. Families may have those in them who practice homosexuality and feel they have to accommodate to the one who practices that sin, but it is still sin.

The day of reckoning in the future will be by God's standards, not those of men, no matter how tolerant they think the Bible-believing Christian should be. We love sinners for their potential and for the fact that God loves them, but we hate the sins they practice.