Human beings were created to live in relationship with God, in loving harmony with each other and in tune with their environment. However, when we fell away from God we forfeited all of the harmony of life. Paul pictures the state of mankind in Romans 1 as a kind of exchange. We were given something wonderful, but we exchanged it for something terrible. We were made to live a certain way, but we exchanged this for something entirely unnatural to us. As an example of this, Paul speaks about unnatural sexual relationships, but his point is broader than just this issue. His point is that, having exchanged the truth of God for a lie, human beings now live against the natural order of things in every way. As a result, our lives have become discordant with the will of God, the lives of others and with our environment. I use the term ‘discordance’ thinking of the uncomfortable feeling that comes from listening to two discordant musical notes as opposed to hearing two harmonious notes. When we are out of tune with God we are also out of tune with other people and our environment as a result. This creates a lingering sense of discordance in our hearts. It’s the continual uncomfortable discordant ring of our conscience. We might manage to drown the sound out with more bad activity, but it never goes away. Only when we come back into harmony with God does it change into a beautiful soul soothing harmony. Is there discordance within you today? Jesus can bring back the harmony if you call on him now.
Ask Jesus to restore the harmony in your heart by bringing you in tune with God.
Read Romans 1:23-32
