“Thus saith the LORD, ‘Stand he in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.’ But they said, ‘We will not walk therein.’” (Jeremiah 6:16)
Jeremiah witnessed the demise of the Southern Kingdom of Judah as he prophesied in the days of Josiah, Jehoiakam and Zedekiah to the fall of Judah in 586 B.C. He saw the nation’s spiritual adultery, their forgetting God, their wickedness and their faith fading into formalism until the Chaldeans took them away.
Their decline reminds me in many ways of the downward spiral of America. It can be illustrated with the following. About sixty five years ago I saw television for the first time. What I saw on someone’s black and white T.V. was very, very mild and tame compared to the wickedness and immorality coming into America’s homes by television today. In fact, if what is regularly shown on television today had been the regular menu in 1946-47 that would have been the end of television. We have become accustomed to the dark in so many areas.
Jeremiah says, “Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush…” (Jeremiah 6:15) The inability to blush or to be ashamed or embarrassed over personal sin, whether public or private, shows where we are headed as a nation. We must turn around.
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