Monday Devo
Scripture:
Romans 1:21-22
21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. 22 Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools.
21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. 22 Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools.
Commentary:
1:21 The root sin is the failure to value God above all things, so that he is not honored and praised as he should be. Human beings are foolish, not in the sense that they are intellectually deficient but in their rejection of God’s lordship over their lives. They knew God not in a saving sense, but they knew of his existence and his attributes.
1:22 Even brilliant people who do not honor God miss the whole purpose of life and are therefore fools (cf. Prov. 1:7, 22; 10:1; 12:15; 14:7; 17:25; 20:3).
1:22 Even brilliant people who do not honor God miss the whole purpose of life and are therefore fools (cf. Prov. 1:7, 22; 10:1; 12:15; 14:7; 17:25; 20:3).
Questions:
- Clayton began on Sunday by talking about "choice architecture." This is a false dichotomy, a logical fallacy, in which you are manipulated into thinking there are only two options to choose from which ultimately leads you to THEIR desired choice. For example, culture will tell you that you either have to be pro-choice or else you oppose women's rights. Or in the case of sexuality and gender, you have to be affirming of someone's choice or else you are a hateful bigot. In what other areas do you notice this happening in our culture today? Have you fallen victim to thinking you have to fit in one of two extremes?
- The Bible teaches us how to think about sexuality, BUT the world/culture often shapes our desires and feelings in ways that we don’t perceive. The stories celebrated within our culture contain an alternate vision of truth, goodness, and beauty, and we can’t help but be deeply affected by those things. This is the power of story. Stories can make us feel good about bad things and feel bad about good things. Because we have been so thoroughly shaped by the subversive messaging of culture, you might agree with your mind that it is good but resist it in your heart because it may not feel good. This is because of how compelling stories are, especially of those people we know and love. What stories have shaped your ideology? Whose stories tug at your heart strings and make the truth more cloudy?
Pray:
- That you would reject culture's ideas and stand on God's truth.
- That you would trust His ways over people's stories.
This Week's City 7:
Try to commit to memory!
4. Can a person be good enough to go to heaven? No. Because Jesus rose from the dead proving He is God, I believe a person is saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
(John 1:12, 14:6; Acts 4:12; Romans 4:1-25, 5:1-2, 6-11, 6:23, 10:1-4, 10:9; Galatians 3:26; Ephesians 2:1-9; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; Titus 3:4-7)
(John 1:12, 14:6; Acts 4:12; Romans 4:1-25, 5:1-2, 6-11, 6:23, 10:1-4, 10:9; Galatians 3:26; Ephesians 2:1-9; 1 Timothy 2:5-6; Titus 3:4-7)
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