I worship created things rather than the Creator, more than I worship the Creator. I still do these things though I know God’s just sentence for such things is death. God’s wrath should scare me. He will bring everything to light. He is just.
3 So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment? 4 Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?
5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. 6 God “will repay each person according to what they have done.” 7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. 8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. [Romans 2]
I’m reminded that I am no better than others; I’m reminded that God’s kindness is intended to lead me to repent. Instead I usually just take His kindness as a free pass to continue disobeying.
I am so good at exchanging eternal treasures for finding immediate satisfactions here in this world. I must persist in doing good rather than persist in rejecting truth and doing evil.
28 A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly, nor is circumcision merely outward and physical. 29 No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the written code. Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God. [Romans 2]
Although I am stubborn and evil, the Spirit can continuously circumcise the heart. I have hope in this.
I need faith and to learn to trust.
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