I just don't get it.

Am I missing something, or do people just not care about God?

Romans 1:28-32 The Message (MSG)

Since they didn’t bother to acknowledge God, God quit bothering them and let them run loose. And then all hell broke loose: rampant evil, grabbing and grasping, vicious backstabbing. They made life hell on earth with their envy, wanton killing, bickering, and cheating. Look at them: mean-spirited, venomous, fork-tongued God-bashers. Bullies, swaggerers, insufferable windbags! They keep inventing new ways of wrecking lives. They ditch their parents when they get in the way. Stupid, slimy, cruel, cold-blooded. And it’s not as if they don’t know better. They know perfectly well they’re spitting in God’s face. And they don’t care—worse, they hand out prizes to those who do the worst things best!

Does this sound like our world today to you? It does to me. What I don’t get is how people cannot see where all our problems have stemmed from. The Apostle here was not targeting any specific group of people, but was illustrating that Jews and Gentiles (Pagans) alike were all corrupt! Depravity is part of our human software as inherited from Adam and Eve through their spiritual DNA. The only thing I can think of that maybe cause people not to see this is that they just don’t believe it. To me, that is the only logical explanation for people not seeing where the problem lies – not caring about God.

I had a friend tell me one time that perhaps if all of us Christians could get on an airplane and fly to the promise land we would be happy and the rest of the world would too! He was not a Christian and was being sarcastic as we were discussing the issue of abortion. He changed his opinion on abortion after his daughter was born. I think though that statement sums it up as far as the rest of the world goes.

I don’t know what to do about it, do you? We preach, we teach, we testify, we pray, we go into the communities, we try to get others to believe it, but for some reason they just keep “running loose.” Perhaps one day God in His infinite mercy will do something that will cause them to see it before it’s too late. Before the church “flies away” and leaves them here without hope.