Ungodly

Who is the most ungodly person you know? Historically, we might be able to point to people who did terrible things like Hitler or Stalin. In our social circles we might know that one person who just despises God and always finds a way to make him the tail end of every joke. Maybe it was the biology teacher that ridiculed every Christian in the class. Maybe it was a Turkish leader who murdered one of your friends serving as missionary.

Maybe as you keep thinking about it, your own name starts to move higher and higher on the list. You say the right things and when people are watching you often do the right things. After doing a few good things in a row, you might even start to think pretty highly of yourself. But there are always those moments, where that sliver of truth nags the deepest recesses of your soul. Nobody else does, but you know the depths of your own sin and ungodliness. You hide it well, but the truth still haunts you.

For you, for me, we should rejoice. Who is our God?

"him who justifies the ungodly"