Devotional Guide, Today’s Reading Wednesday, August 20th, 2025

Comment: In total defiance of this express commandment of God, violation of which attracts the penalty of death (Leviticus 20:13), a number of nations in the western world and international organisations under the vile influence of the devil have continued to promote the ‘rights’ of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender and queer or questioning (LGBTQ). They have even gone on to influence other nations to accept such perversions as the norm, teaching the same to the younger generation. Concerning them, St. Paul says: “Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God; …For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet…” (Romans 1:21-28)  As children of God, we must keep ourselves unpolluted by this evil in the world by separating ourselves from the evil system of things. – James 1:27; 2 Corinthians 6:17, 18.