We’ve all heard the old cliché, “Some things never change.” Well I think I’ve found something that has. When I was kid and observed people get ticked over something, they’d rip off one of the handful of choice expletives of that generation. But today it’s different. Oh yes, we hear those same profanities, but in a much wider and more colorful array of choices. But here’s the bigger difference yet: we now hear these once verbal-taboos inserted in the ordinary discourse of casual conversation.
But one expletive, used back then and now, that many don’t even consider an expletive anymore, offends me more than all the rest combined. It’s any expression where the word, “God”, is used with contempt; as in, forgive me for a moment, “God damn it”. Now I’m believing that people of Faith never employ this expression – or if they do, very, very infrequently; even after some virus has infected their PC or their teenager just got kicked off the school track team for bullying a classmate.
Why not plan to join us this Sunday as we continue our current sermon series on the 10 Commandments? We’ll be probing the 3rd Great Commandment. But let me whet your appetite with this: Everyone of us probably violates this Command quite routinely as its application is much wider and more inclusive than most of us even have a clue.