Being Ashamed

Being Ashamed

Being ashamed of Jesus, or of God’s Word, is shameful, because then He is ashamed of us. Being ashamed of what is holy and pure, noble and good is extremely shameful!

It is also shameful when a person is not ashamed of evil and impure and sinful things, of every transgression and act of disobedience and negligence. “O my God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God . . . .” Ezra 9:6.

However, it is not just the basest things that give us good reason to be ashamed. On the contrary! What a shame to show such small interest in God’s Word! What a shame not to be boiling-hot in our love for Christ! How shameful it is to have been converted for many years, and still not have made great progress! Perhaps no progress!!!

When a person, in spite of all this—and much more besides—is still not ashamed, then he is in a bad!!! Then he is not sorrowful in a godly manner; he lacks self-acknowledgment, and hunger and thirst for being thoroughly saved and making progress in spirit and in truth. Then he needs to be radically converted!

“They were not at all ashamed; nor did they know how to blush.” Jer. 6:15. This word is applicable to all of mankind in these days and, unfortunately, also to so-called Christians, and even, to a certain extent, to real Christians! To most people, blushing and modesty and feeling ashamed are virtually foreign concepts whose meaning is unknown.

Being ashamed of what one has done or said or of what one has neglected to say or do, are foreign concepts.

The point is that being ashamed of one’s bad and poor behavior is a true expression for the laws of receptivity. There is much hope for all those who grieve over themselves, for all those who are ashamed of the fact that it is still not going much better with them!

We have an exceptionally apt word in Ezekiel 43:10 and 11: “Speak . . . that they may be ashamed . . . .” Then we have one of the most glorious promises in the Scriptures that is, unfortunately, fairly unknown and even less used! May it become well-known and well used from now on: “And if they are ashamed of all that they have done, then make known to them . . . ;” namely, what they need to know. Then they would receive true light so they could become happy in this light.

Therefore it is of the utmost importance to be ashamed, to be so truth-loving, so self-acknowledging, that you do it heartily, of your own accord.

The more seriously and carefully you stop at each scripture, the more you can find things to of which to be ashamed. However, it is not common for people to search in the Scriptures in order to find things like that. But, better late than never! Begin to search for your shame so there can be an end of it before the Bridegroom comes! Let it be so!

“O my God, I am too ashamed . . . .” Ezra 9:6. “My shame is before me all day long . . . .” Ps. 44:15. “Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed . . . .” 2 Tim. 2:15.

Read in the Bible concordance under: shame, shamelessness, ashamed, shameful. May there be a complete end to all our shame both openly and secretly, so we can be a wholehearted adornment of the doctrine of God our Savior, clothed with a full measure of all the virtues of Christ.