Who is Really Corrupting Our Society?

This quote from my devotional reading really made me think …. we all like to blame the ills of the world on somebody else.  Maybe we need to take a closer look within ourselves before we assign the blame.

“The real corrupters of society may be, not the corrupt, but those who have held back the righteous leaven, the salt that has lost its savor, the innocent who have not even the moral courage to show what they think of the effrontery of impurity,–the serious, who yet timidly succumb before some loud-mouthed scoffer,—the heart trembling all over with religious sensibilities that yet suffers itself through false shame to be beaten down into outward and practical acquiescence by some rude and worldly nature.”

J.H. Thom

For another quote by J.H. Thom, see this previous post:

Are You Truly Loving?

Are You Truly Loving?

This quote was part of my devotional reading this morning, and it made me realize how difficult it is to be truly loving.  We cannot do it unless God’s Spirit is within us.  It reminds me of the love verses of 1 Corinthians, Chapter 13.

“The Spirit of Love must work the works, and speak the tones of Love.  It cannot exist and give no sign, or a false sign.  It cannot be a spirit of Love, and mantle into irritable and selfish impatience.  It cannot be a Spirit of Love, and at the same time make self the prominent object.  It cannot rejoice to lend itself to the happiness of others, and at the same time be seeing its own.  It cannot be generous, and envious.  It cannot be sympathizing, and unseemly;  self-forgetful, and vain-glorious.  It cannot delight in the rectitude and purity of other hearts, as the spiritual elements of their peace, and unnecessarily suspect them.

J. H. Thom