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A man went to visit his neighbor on a beautiful spring Saturday morning.

"I need to borrow your lawnmower," he said,
"I tried to start mine and it just won't work."

"No, I'm sorry, but you can't use it today," the neighbor replied,
"You see, my wife is baking bread today."

"Baking bread? May I ask what baking bread has to do with the loan of your lawn mower?" asked the man.

"Certainly," responded the reluctant neighbor,
"When you don't want to do something, any excuse is just as good as another!"

I am certain that you have heard that story-or one like it-before. If there is one thing that characterizes our society and its this: we have become very adept at making excuses.

We have more time saving devices than ever before, yet we say,
"We just don't have the time."

We have more knowledge and accessibility to storehouses of information, yet we will say,
"I didn't know."

Somehow we think that our situation is always different. Yet the Bible says in Romans 1:18-20
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so they are without excuse."

Here Paul answers the skeptics who are looking for an excuse to condemn the Gospel and the idea of God's punishment and wrath.

"What about the ones who have never heard?" they ask,
"Surely God will not condemn them."

Yet Paul says that the compelling need to acknowledge who God is has been revealed even in nature from the beginning of time. The fact that man has tried to form and worship idols proves that man has known about this and instead desires to fashion a god of convenience that he wants to worship, rather than to submit to the power of the Almighty.

We stand today without excuse. As if God needed to clarify anything, He gave His law to show how holy and righteous He is, and what sinners we are.

Even after that we made excuses. And still God has demonstrated our need for a savior and His love for us in sending us His Son Jesus Christ to die for our sins on the cross.


How our excuses melt before the knowledge of this truth.

Jeff Russell
Friendship Baptist Church,
Langenselbold, Germany

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