Monday, March 23, 2015

More Shame Is Needed

Today,  I saw a woman with a very filthy word on the shirt that she wore.  What she told me was that she lived in the gutter.  She was announcing without any shame that she had no code of morality and that decency was not in her thoughts.  But, she is only one among many.  The magazines in the check out counter at the grocery store tell us that many in our society are without shame.  The dress that people wear and their speech inform us constantly that many no longer blush.  Jeremiah told Judah of old that they had no shame and could not blush at their evil and wickedness.  "Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination?  nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush."  Jeremiah 6:15.  Wickedness abounds.  Evil is everywhere.  The pure and the decent cannot avoid contact with the sins of a society.  But, we can blush.  I felt shame that I have to witness such a violation of morals.  A society that feels no shame and that cannot blush is on a downward spire.  It is headed for destruction.  Jeremiah informed Judah that because of their condition of heart that "they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord."  A people that cannot be ashamed of their abomination and that does not blush at their evil will be visited by the Lord and they shall fall.  And great will be the fall thereof.

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