When I harden my heart and mind against my wife because I
don’t approve of the way she cleans the apartment, I harden myself against my
wife, period, and no longer appreciate anything that she does. When we harden
our hearts and minds against one thing, we harden ourselves against everything.
When we take drugs to deaden our stressed-out feelings, we numb ourselves to
everything else. Likewise, when we harden ourselves against God, we harden
ourselves against life and people.
Perhaps this is the best way to understand the insanity and
self-destructiveness into which the West has descended:
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Romans 1:21-28 “For although they knew God, they
did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their
thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they
became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling
mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Therefore God gave them
up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies
among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and
worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed
forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For
their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;
and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed
with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and
receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. And since they did not
see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a DEBASED MIND to do what ought
not to be done.”
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