“Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.” - Jeremiah 8v12
Blushing seems to have gone completely out of vogue. Even Christians seem to be ashamed to be ashamed. What has happened to cause this? How have we become so much like the Judah that Jeremiah wrote to who “were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush”?
We have a fine line to walk as Christians. We must live in the present world, we have no option, and we cannot crawl off to some monastery and hide away in exclusion. Living in this world we must deal with it and all of its inherent evils. We are going to see and encounter things. However, Jesus prayed that though we live in the world we must not be of the world. It is when we become of the world that we cease to be ashamed and forget how to blush.
What a wonderful thing it is when Christians are still embarrassed and still blush at sin. It is time for us to stop being ashamed to be ashamed.
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