Psalm 105 (106)

They mingled themselves with the peoples,

and learned to do as they did.

They served the same idols

until it became their undoing.

They sacrificed their own sons

and their daughters to demons.

They poured out innocent blood.

The blood of their own sons and daughters

was sacrificed to the idols of Canaan.

Their blood polluted the land,

and their actions defiled them.

They devoted themselves to whoring.

The Lord blazed out in anger against his own people,

He detested his own chosen race.

He gave them into the hands of foreigners.

They were conquered by those who hated them.

These words from today’s Office of Readings, I find frightening in light of our society.  We are blessed by the knowledge that God, who is near to us, has blessed us, giving us His Son and sending us His Holy Spirit.  Sinners get to live as saints should they so desire. What does our society reveal about our desires.

What does our society testify about us as a people?  Gifts, even gifts of God, can be squandered by prodigal sons and daughters. His greatest gift, life, we subject to pluralistic debate and countermand by man-made law. ‘Choice’ is elevated above conscience and morality and enshrined as a god to be fed by money-making mills. Is this license the best we can do with the gift of life in a land of freedom and liberty?

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