Romans 1: 28-32

"(28) Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowldge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not be done. (29) They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, (30)slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; (31) they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless; (32) Although they know God's righeous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them."

So I had to back up and finish chapter 1 because I got ahead of myself last night :-) Paul is still talking about how people knew God, but chose to serve the things in the world around them. I'm doing a really awesome bible study called The Truth Project and the guy in the DVD's talks about "the box". "The box" is the world that we live in and God is outside "the box". The people Paul is talking about are looking for a higher power and a meaning to life by looking inside "the box", but God isn't there. By not looking outside "the box" to find God and follow His will, they fall into all sorts of sin. I thought it was a tiny bit funny that Paul includes disobeying parents right along with murder, deceit and evil, but sin is sin I suppose. I think the food for thought today is this: in verse 32, Paul says that people who do the sins he's listed and turn away from God deserve death. The only way to avoid death that takes you to hell is to turn toward God and accept Jesus as your savior. Then you can hopefully put all those corrupting sins behind you with the help of the almighty God.