BEING GIVEN OVER TO A DEBASED MIND
"AND EVEN AS THEY DID NOT LIKE TO RETAIN GOD IN THEIR KNOWLEDGE, GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO A DEBASED MIND, to do those things which are not fitting."
Romans 1:28 (NKJV)
If someone or a group of people would not want to retain God in their knowledge, He would definitely allow them to do whatever they have chosen and conceived in their minds to do—things that are not fitting.
God to some extent does not force things on people. If you would not want His way of life or His pattern of living, He would allow you to have your way, but surely not without serious consequences.
Man, human, was made a free moral being. Man, human, is given freedom of choice. You can choose to do or not. This is the reason why someone can wake up and say there is no God, that God does not exist (Psalm 14:1). That is his own opinion! No one will penalize him for it.
So If someone does not want to embrace God or His ways, he or she would be allowed to continue with their life. But such a person might be made to be willing in the process of time (Philippians 2:13).
Being made to be willing is when the person is allowed to be confronted with challenges, things or issues come their way, that he or she would need God's intervention or a supernatural help. Someone dying of terminal disease or sickness, vulnerable, and could not be helped medically, would not mind of being told about God and being prayed for, because such is in an agony and needed a succour at such a time.
There are number of things that could happen or come someone's way that would be beyond what the person can handle, things that could not be solved with money, position, power or influence, or whatever; which would require the intervention of God. At such a time, when God is introduced to the person who says there is no God, he or she may think otherwise, such might want to believe there is God.
A preacher was sharing about a woman who does not believe that the devil exists. She was hearing some mysterious voices in her house and was looking for help. The pastor told her that what she was experiencing is the work of the devil. She answered, Is the devil real? The pastor, taken aback, asked her, Is what you are experiencing, the strange voices you are hearing, real? She said It is real. If It was not real I would not be here looking for solutions. The preacher told her, If what you are experiencing is real, It means the devil is real.
God is real. The devil is real. The spiritual realm is real. In fact, the spiritual realm is more real than the physical realm. And the spiritual realm controls the physical realm. Life is spiritual!
It is the high time that you believe in God, embrace Him and let Him be in the driver's seat, commandership and directorship, of your life.
The idea of God does not exist is common in the western world because things are relatively easy, in terms of having basic necessities of life. The reason that they have food to eat and the opportunity to have their basic needs met, they want to believe If they could have their needs met, what is the need for God then?
But they have forgotten that there are things money cannot buy and many problems that could not be solved medically. It is like a lot are waking up since the time of COVID-19, they have seen and realized there are things that could not be solved by money or medication.
A debased mind is a corrupted or perverted mind. What led to such a mind is when someone refused to receive and retain the knowledge of God's Word. Whereas the knowledge of God should be the first and foremost priority of whoever claims to be of God, because you cannot walk or relate with Him without the knowledge of His Word. God is known primarily through the knowledge of His Word and the practice of it. Thus, work towards the increase of your Word intake and the practice of it.
Note:
a. Read, study, and live in line with the principles found in the Word of God, the Bible, daily (Joshua 1:8; Psalm 1:1-3; James 1:22-25).
b. Be prayerful. The knowledge of the Word of God will help you in praying aright (1 Thessalonians 5:17).
c. Walk and do things with the consciousness of God being with you by acknowledging Him in all you wanted to do (Proverbs 3:5,6).
d. Develop your perceptiveness, the keenness to hear from God and the promptness in the doing of whatever you heard from Him (Isaiah 30:21).
e. Be meek and humble yourself, let God be the One leading and directing your life (Psalm 25:9).
If you are reading this piece and you are yet to embrace God through Jesus Christ, now is the time to do that, tomorrow might be too late:
1 WE THEN, AS WORKERS TOGETHER WITH HIM ALSO PLEAD WITH YOU NOT TO RECEIVE THE GRACE OF GOD IN VAIN. 2 FOR HE SAYS: “IN AN ACCEPTABLE TIME I HAVE HEARD YOU, AND IN THE DAY OF SALVATION I HAVE HELPED YOU.” BEHOLD, NOW IS THE ACCEPTED TIME; BEHOLD, NOW IS THE DAY OF SALVATION" (2 Corinthians 6:1,2 NKJV).
Peace.
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