SEXUAL PERVERSION...

"Refusing to know God, they soon didn’t know how to be human either –
women didn’t know how to be women, men didn’t know how to be men.
Sexually confused, they abused and defiled one another, women with
women, men with men – all lust, no love" (Romans 1:26-27, The
Message).

Ignorance about God is tragic; it leads to all other forms of hurtful
ignorance. The man that does not know God is to be pitied above all
men. If you have such people around you, they deserve your utmost
compassion and ardent intercession.

All forms of knowledge are profitable. But the most profitable and
needful is the knowledge of the Most High God. Since He is the
omniscient one, the all-knowing God, in Him is found the knowledge of
all other things that are benefitial to human life, not only here on
earth, but also in the hereafter. It is in the area of gaining
reliable insight into issues of the life after now that the knowledge
about God greatly surpasses all other kinds of knowledge.

But the most important dimension to this issue set forth in our
scripture for today is that we will never come to really know
ourselves until we know the God who made us. Remember that man is made
in the image of God. So man can only know himself as he knows God. And
because God also made the world, we can better know the world we are
living in by knowing the God that made it.

When we refuse to know God and consequently fail to know ourselves,
depravity comes in and abuse becomes inevitable. Such is the case of
men who forget that they are males and are seeking to have sex with
their fellow men. Or think of women who forget their feminity and are
seeking to have sex with other women. Such confusion has led to
distortions in human values so that lust is taken to mean love,
crookedness is considered cleverness, and the dishonest is thought of
as the smart guy.

But until we seek to know God and increase in that knowledge, the
human society will not know decency, order and  decorum. Until the
knowledge of God fills our land, we will not know justice and peace.
Friends, your path to a fulfilled life of personal peace, progress and
prosperity is in knowing the One who made you and designed you for a
purpose.

O that I may know you Lord, and thereby know myself, and discover your
purpose for my life, as well as the abundant treasures you have
deposited in me.
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