Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? Nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD. Jeremiah 8:12 KJV
Have you have been caught doing something or saying something wrong and blushed? Usually such blushing is an uncontrolled response of embarrassment on our part. We are oftentimes even further embarrassed by doing so. Here, according to the Lord, such blushing is a good sign; it indicates a healthy conscience at work. When we are no longer able to blush or feel shame it indicates the opposite, a conscience seared, numbed to sin (1Timothy 4:2). Although many even today would call that progress or enlightenment, God refers to it as a moral decline and a fall into judgment. We live in a time like that, when people boast rather than blush over sin. Do you still blush? That is a good sign.
Lord, I have often felt bad about blushing as easily as I do, but I wonder if I feel worse about the blushing than I do about the sin. Help me to continue to maintain a healthy conscience that convicts me about sin and causes me to feel shame when I am caught in it.
