There is no SHAME!

My new memory work is from Isaiah 40 verses 21-31. Today I am focusing on verse 23 because dwelling in God's presence is what I have been pondering these last few blogs. Verse 23 says, "That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity." Just as the countenance of God can bring peace and comfort, it also brings judgment and destruction.

Psalm 80:16 "It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance."

Psalm 90:8 "Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance."

Revelation 1:16 says, "and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength."

The secret sins we want to hide, even from ourselves, can not be concealed in the presence of God.
The reaction to this revelation is what our society has tried to remove with it's except everybody doing anything and everything they want to do any where and any way they want. Don't correct children for wrong behaviors because nothing is wrong. Wear what you want. Do what you want.
There is no SHAME!

Yesterday afternoon, around 3:00, my husband and I stopped to full up with gas. At the pump next to us was a red sports car. Standing by that car was a young lady. School had just let out. I could see her bookbag in the backseat. What she was wearing made me want to jump out of the car and find her mother and shake her. But then, as I sat there, I realized that is the style of the day. It is what all the young ladies in all the public high schools, that do not require uniforms, are wearing. I almost wanted to cry. My grandmother would not have worn that to bed!

That's it! The standards have changed. Grandmother's are wearing shameful clothes and not setting the example. Oh, I can see right now this is going to be a soapbox issue for me. I am not a grandmother yet, but maybe I should go clean out my closet and begin praying that God will raise up some holy women in this land again. We should be more ASHAMED!