What Are You Worth?

Are we only a bag of flesh and bones, or are we worth something more? What the world around us appears to be is largely dependent upon where we're looking. Our attention is driven by what we value, so we pay attention to things we personally value. That is, we see things that are in the direction we're looking. So, in our minds, the way the world seems to work can easily be biased in our mind. We tend to find what we're looking for and what we value. If we place our value on God, then we can see God and His works in the world all around us. Conversely, if we value something else, then we're going to see the world defined by those other values.

Paul's letter to the Romans opens on these same ideas. You can see God all around you (1:19-20), but if you have valued something of this world more than God, including your own "wisdom," you will struggle finding God (1:21-23). In doing so, this mindset will lead you to exactly what you were looking for, or valuing, all along: uncleanness through the lusts of your own heart (1:24). Paul goes on to note what kind of society a mindset valuing something more than God has "found" in it where it was paying attention:

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet. 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; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: (Rom. 1:26-31)

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Ben McManus

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