This passage reminds me of several things.
- The lost are lost.
- The absurdity of allowing the lost to influence the saved.
- The absurdity of the saved not influencing the lost.
If you read on, you hear wonderful things used to described the people of God as those who have their way; those who live in confidence, who live with direction and purpose to the glory of God, for indeed God did save them and make them and they are His merely by undeserved mercy. What a contrast.
What a sadness. The lost are helpless. The lost cannot help their wandering and wondering ways. While we sit in church and discuss how lost lost people are, amazed by their blindness and actions of what seems to us as stupidity (reread the passage), the fact is that the lost are lost. They cannot help but meander meaningless lives, all the while oblivious to their sad state and without any hope of finding their way out.
Please meditate a moment on Romans 10:13-14.
A comment for your discussion. Please comment as you have time. I'm genuinely seeking to expand my vision of God as we explore worship. How does this emphatic statement strike you? True worshipers are broken over the lost. True worshipers are not influenced by the lost. True worshipers seek to influence the lost by proclaiming Jesus in all they do.
