Children of wrath

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others. – Ephesians 2.2-3

Verse one ended with the words ‘your trespasses and sin’ and verse two picks up with the words ‘in which you once walked’ and it goes on to describe what it means to walk in trespasses and sin.

It says that we walked the way the world walks. It means that we walked the way the devil wanted us to walk. It means we walked as children of disobedience. We means we acted according to the lusts of our flesh and did what our flesh and mind wanted. It means that tragically we were by our very nature the children of wrath.

This explains why the world around us functions the way it does. It explains why we see such terrible crimes and horrendous actions and disregard and rampant open sin. While mankind is capable of great advances and we benefit from those advances man still is capable of great sin and destruction.

We were all that day one day. We can’t look at the world with pride or arrogance or disdain for such were all of us. There is hope for them just like there was for us and that hope starts with tomorrow’s passage – but God…