Romans 1:32  Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

His elevator doesn’t go all the way to the top floor.
He couldn’t find his way out of a paper bag.
He doesn’t have both oars in the water.
He is as dumb as a post (as a stump).
He’s dumber than a bag of hammers (than a box of rocks).
He’s a few bricks shy of a load.
He’s a few fries short of a Happy Meal.
He’s a few sandwiches short of a picnic.
He just fell off the turnip truck.
His lights are on but there’s nobody home.
He’s not playing with a full deck.
He’s not the brightest bulb (in the box / on the tree / in the chandelier).
He’s not the brightest crayon in the box.
He’s not the sharpest crayon in the box.
He’s not the sharpest knife in the drawer..
He’s not the sharpest pencil in the box.
He’s one taco short of a combination plate.
He’s as sharp as a marble.
He’s as thick as a brick. (…as thick as a ditch.)
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.

Oh, to not be inspiration for such expressions. Yet, there is something about love that dislodges the channels of the brain, and causes there to be blindness along with frailty of judgment.  While this is often the case with infatuation that overwhelms the senses of one who has ‘fallen in love’, it inevitably is the case, without fail, for the one who is taken by an obsession with sin. To observe the one who has lost their mind on drugs or alcohol, it would seem so void of cognizant thinking to ever have partaken of something that would knowingly destroy brain cells. Yet, for the ‘love’ of these deadly teasers, there is a willingness to forsake everything of value in relationships and occupation over the beckoning to experience yet again something that has hooked them on a hunger and a feeling, a bit like the fish on a hook, and they’re being pulled into shore. There is a politician of prominence in the news recently for being ‘stung’ for lewd behavior in an airport bathroom stall. The first thought would be that, even if this guy had an issue with this sin, surely he would know better than to risk his whole career, reputation, family and future over one little ‘fix’ with a stranger. Sin, though, achieves its purpose in just this way, by first removing the ability to think clearly. This man had surely given in to the stupidity of something that he knew was clearly wrong countless times in the privacy of his mind for much of his life prior to this public revelation of his mindless submission to stupidity’s demands.

It is so easy to judge those who have been ‘found out’ in their ‘unacceptable’ transgressions, and yet to back up a few verses here in Romans is to discover that there are many other mindless deeds that are accepted in our daily lives, but are in the very same category of destruction. – verses 29-31:

  “Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful.”

Pride is what leads us into any of these things, because there is a conscious decision to abandon what is known to be God’s will regarding them, and yet there is absolutely nothing to be proud of with the wages of any of these behaviors. It would seem, from what this scripture says, that the whisperer, backbiter, boaster, and disobedient are just as free from cerebral activity as the murderer, fornicator, and pervert. What makes any of these things particularly challenging to clarity of thought is the awareness of their error. There is a consequence for the error of the senator’s exposed insanity as he is being judged in every area of his life today, but there is also a consequence for anything in our own lives that we willfully violate in our own conscience for the blind and brainless love of any of these things that are so meaningless, cheap, and completely destructive. There can be no stone in our own hand if there is even the least amount of equally mindless rebellion, lack of mercy or cheating in our own heart.

With God there is a clear aligning oneself with a full load of bricks every time something that is known of Him dictates our behavior. To know better isn’t enough. With Him it is the one who submits to that knowledge who is freed in their mind to make right choices and live in the blessing of righteousness. There is a top floor to be reached by our elevator and someone to answer the door in our well lit house today; there is a way to a renewed and healthy mind in the simple obedience to what is known in Him. Letting go of pride and giving in to righteousness passes the test every time, and there is never a sorrow or shame to deal with. Love of sin produces acts of stupidity, while love of God frees the mind from the traps and strongholds that ‘sting’ and destroy every time.

2Corinthians 2:14  Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

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