AIR POLUTION

This is not about an occasional damn or hell that many drop into countless conversations. I believe that all conversations would be better if they weren’t there, but that is another subject, not the one I am at this moment addressing. No, I mean the very distinct problem of how, with such consummate ease, so many today throw around the name of God and Jesus as curse words.
Having said this…suppose I were to walk up to you and began to insult you family; curse your father, call your mother by a totally unacceptable name and rake your brothers or sisters over the coals with one profanity after the other, what would you do? Would you just stand there with a silly grin on your face or no expression at all? Would you act as if I had said nothing out of the ordinary because, after all, people use such language all the time? After all I have only defamed your family. It’s no big deal.

Suppose someone walks up to you and begins to insult your family of God? What if they use the well accepted GD’s of today, and by so doing throw verbal sludge at your heavenly Father. What if they then use the name of His son as a curse word and thereby literally rake the whole family of God over the coals? What will you do? Will you just stand there with a silly grin on your face or no expression at all? Will you act as if they have said nothing out of the ordinary because, after all, people use such language all the time? After all they have only defamed the family of God. It’s no big deal.

It’s no big deal? Really? What we allow spoken in our presence - no matter how bad, becomes the accepted norm and very often what people therefore begin to think we actually stand for.

Suppose the next time you hear someone use heaven’s own as a curse word you were to say, “I really don’t care for that kind of language.” Will they appreciate your comment? Probably not. Will everyone you say this to never take God’s name in vain again, or at least never again in your presence? No, not everyone. But some will respect you for speaking up and you will have sowed a seed worth sowing, a thought worth thinking. And since we are the product of our thoughts this is no small achievement.

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