A lamentation to start a new month

By: American Decency Staff

As I send out our daily email alerts with such topics as putting blinders over Cosmopolitan, Victoria’s Secret and their business falterings, a review of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition, etc., I fairly-regularly receive an email response such as: “Please unsubscribe me.â€Â “Please stop sending me your emails!â€Â Behind each of these there is a story, I’m sure. Perhaps it is that this one or that one loves Victoria’s Secret lingerie. Another one thinks we’re over the top regarding our fanatical obsession with decency. The list goes on. I can somewhat understand this, but I have little sympathy for it because it remains my strong view that we should not give a free pass to such displays. There’s ample reason; here is one. We are surrounded by deceivers, liars, seducers, the foolish, the unwise. Some of these are movers and shakers in the wrong way and for the wrong reasons: greed, decadence, perversion, the rationalization of sin, etc.. The fool has said in his heart there is no God. God brings multiple warnings in many places in the Bible. One of those warnings comes from Proverbs which I’ll share momentarily. But first this: God has made us into awesome creatures. We are made in His very image. Yet, at the same time, we are not God. We are fallen creatures since the sin of our forefather Adam. We are sinners in need of a Savior. Being fallen we live as if we are without need of wisdom from above. What arrogance! What foolishness! What sadness! A trail of heartbreak will follow – it’s just a matter of time. Here is a warning for each of us: Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?   For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he ponders all his paths. The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin. He dies for lack of discipline, and because of his great folly he is led astray. Proverbs 5:20-23 And also in Proverbs: And now, O sons, listen to me, and do not depart from the words of my mouth. Keep your way far from her, and do not go near the door of her house, lest you give your honor to others and your years to the merciless, lest strangers take their fill of your strength, and your labors go to the house of a foreigner, and at the end of your life you groan, when your flesh and body are consumed, and you say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof! I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors. I am at the brink of utter ruin in the assembled congregation.â€Â [Proverbs 5:7-14] There is heartache and heartbreak in warning loved ones when too often they don’t heed it because they don’t believe. Anyone honest knows how easy it is to get ensnared by satan’s tricks. Recently, a couple of Olympians modeled for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit. One of them, Hannah Teter, stated: “I’m OK with people being naked. There shouldn’t be a huge deal made about it. People in tribal nations walk around naked, and they don’t have bad things going on sexually, because it’s OK.â€Â Spoken with such a sense of arrogance. Does she really know about the culture/subculture of tribal nations? Does she really know about the impact that pictures of her own body are having upon others? Are sexually transmitted diseases, rapes, molestations, incest, premarital sex, lust, adultery just anomalies? Just isolated incidents? Would God have us be silent? Would God have us stop doing what we can to speak up, speak out, educate, encourage, shine light upon that which is dark and dishonoring to Him?  We think the answer is clear.  Help us Lord! ============================================== Your support is important to our ability to make a difference: donate online at: https://secure4.afo.net/ada/main.php?f=store/display American Decency Association Bill Johnson, President P.O. Box 202 Fremont, MI 49412 ph: 231-924-4050 www.americandecency.org http://www.twitter.com/billwjohnson

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