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I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD, that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord GOD.” – Ezekiel 16:62, 63 (ESV)
Only those things which are sinful, are shameful.
When the penitent soul sees his sins pardoned, the anger of God pacified, and divine justice satisfied, then he sits down ashamed. Sin and shame are inseparable companions.
A Christian cannot have the seeming sweet of sin, but he shall have the real shame which accompanies sin. These two God has joined together, and all the world cannot put them asunder.
It was the vile and impenitent Caligula who said of himself, “that he loved nothing better in himself, than that he could not be ashamed.”
A soul who has sinned away all shame, is a soul ripe for hell–and given up to Satan! A greater plague cannot befall a man in this life, than to sin and not to blush!
- Thomas Brooks, Heaven on Earth, 1667
“A greater plague cannot befall a man in this life, than to sin and not to blush!” The Puritans simply did not care to coddle the flesh. Yet the Scriptures agree with the sad condition Mr. Brooks has written about. May we embrace the conviction of sin the Spirit of God brings when we read or hear the biblical account of our souls.