Made Me Blush

Jeremiah 6:15
Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the Lord.

Can you hear the brokenness in Jeremiah's heart in this scripture? Or more than that, the heart of our God? We know that Jeremiah was the broken-heart weeping preacher. So I don't believe that there is any pride or arrogance in this question. I don't hear a man who is condemning the nation for their sins. I hear a man who is so broken for the people of God that he gets down to some very fine details about their condition.

Me and my wife a couple of years back was doing our normal routine of dropping off a one hundred dollar bill at Walmart. (Seems like they need one every week or so) While we were walking down one of the aisles a young teenage boy (about 16) was walking toward us with a black shirt on with huge white letters. From the far distance I thought, "There ain't no way that shirt says what I think it says!" Well he had to get a little closer for Patti to read it. And then there it was... Plain as the sunshine in the middle of the day. The words, "F--- You". I'm telling you I almost passed out. I didn't know what to say except, "Does your Momma know you got that shirt on?" Not an answer, not a blush.

Did you know that even a few church members are this way also? Yes! Christians today seem to be satisfied with the sin that they commit. Remember now that Jeremiah is broken about the nation of Israel, God's people. Now we can't expect the world to reverence God or be ashamed of sin. I know that when I was lost I didn't respect God or was embarrassed of my sin. But shouldn't we expect the people of God to be ashamed of sin? Shouldn't we believe that they would want to be as far away from sin as possible?

It's time the House of God and its people stop putting on fake rouge, pinching their checks to make them seem like they are blushing. It's time we truly become ashamed of sin. Ashamed to the point of repentance and walking upright. I hope as you read this, you're blushing.