Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Romans 1:24-27
There's a lot that could be said about this passage. A lot. But it's not the results that I want to address today; it's the cause. Not just of this particular issue, but all sin. "They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and served created things rather than the Creator..." (v. 25)
When we exchange the truth of God for lies, everything gets messed up. One major element of my own journey to freedom the past few years has been identifying lies I'd come to believe and then deliberately replacing them with the truth. For example, for most of my life I believed I was worthless and undeserving of love. Shame coloured my whole world, but it was so insidious that I wasn't even aware of it - it was my normal. When God's truth finally broke in, and I started to believe it, everything changed. (You can read the whole amazing story here.)
God of all truth, please open our eyes to the lies that have become a part of who we are. Guide us in your truth and teach us your ways. Thank you for the freedom that comes when your truth sets us free! Amen.
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