Therefore
God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for
the degrading of their bodies with one another. They
exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created
things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
Because of
this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural
sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same
way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with
lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received
in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Romans 1:24-27
Romans
1 says that there is a point when God stops fighting against our sinfulness and
allows all the people to suffer all the sinful consequences. When we abandon what’s right, God fights for
what’s right, holding back the consequences, then eventually says, “You want
it? You can have it.”
Now
we see those consequences today. As our
world allows for sexual and gender fluidity, the consequences of confusion and
chaos set in. Suicide rates escalate as
people lose footing. Hate takes center
stage and violence ensues, innocent people being killed in stores, schools and
on the street corner.
When
we realize what’s right in God’s eyes and pursue that, the consequences will
slow down and we’ll have peace with God and each other once again.