“What initially sparks God’s anger? What is the root sin, the molten core of wickedness and godlessness…It’s right there in Romans 1. It’s not the sinfulness you’d think it’d be: It’s the thanklessness – that we do. It’s our thanklessness that first stirs the full wrath of God. The beginnings of Genesis and Romans 1 pivot on the same point: Eve’s thanklessness for all God does give, and her resentfulness of the one fruit He doesn’t give, this is the catalyst of the fall. Which Romans 1 confirms: “For though they knew God they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile, and their foolish hearts were darkened.” Our fall is always first a failure to give thanks.
I have been challenged so much this past year by Ann Voskamp’s book, “One Thousand Gifts.I have been challenged so much this past year by Ann Voskamp’s book, “One Thousand Gifts.”
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