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By Pastor Glenn Pease
It is on the highest interest level to hear of people's most embarrassing moments.
Jane Wyman tells of hers.
She was preparing for very important guests and she put a note on the guest towels that she had so carefully selected.
The note read, "If you use these I will murder you."
The note was meant for her husband, of course, but in all the excitement of her preparation she forgot to remove the note.
When the evening was over and the guests had departed she discovered the towels were still in perfect order, as well as the note itself.
She wanted to crawl into a hole she was so embarrassed.
Something like this happens to all of us at some time or other.
Carl Michaelson tells of his little girl coming in with a tear in her pants and his wife was angry.
She had done this too often, and she said to her, "Now you go to your room and sew up that tear."
The poor little kid never had a needle in her hand.
The mother went to check on her a little later and there were her torn pants on the floor, but no little girl.
She went searching and when she saw the light on in the basement she called down, "Are you down there running around with your pants off?"
There was silence, and then a deep voice responded, "No madam, I'm just reading the gas meter."
Talk about embarrassing!
Art Linkletter tells about one of his most embarrassing experiences on his once popular show People Are Funny.
They had an auction offering the person in the studio who contributed most to charity the chance to come up and hit him with a chocolate cream pie.
The highest bitter was a sweet little gray haired grandmother.
She wrote out her personal check for 200 dollars.
She picked up the pie and smashed it completely across his face.
Then she twisted it which forced the meringue under his eyes.
He said he would never forget that experience, but to add to the embarrassment her check bounced, and he knew he had been had.
Life is filled with embarrassing moments.
We feel embarrassed as children about our silly mistakes that everybody laughs at.
Then as teens we are embarrassed about our zips, our clothes, and quite often about our parents.
But it works both ways.
And when we become parents, we are often embarrassed by our children, and their behavior.
Shame because of our feelings of inferiority and our sinful desires are a normal part of everyone's life.
A Christian father writing in Moody Monthly says the most embarrassing thing he ever did was reading the Bible with his children.
The first thing they asked was why did Abraham lie about his wife Sarah?
His daughter asked, "Daddy didn't he love her?" Then came Lot in Sodom and they wanted to know why the town homosexuals wanted to beat down the door of Lot to get at his guests.
Things did not get better when he got to David.
Questions about adultery and murder were not comfortable for him.
He switched to Proverbs for a while, but then had to face: "Daddy, what's a prostitute?"
It was one of the hardest things he ever did because the Bible deals openly with all the things that shame and embarrass us.
But it did force him to prepare his children for the real world.
The feelings of shame and embarrassment are not all bad.
Peter the Great was once so angry with a servant on his boat that he was going to throw him overboard and let him drown.
The servant reminded him that this would go on his record for all of history.
This reminder cooled him off, for he did not want the shame of that blot on his record.
Shame prevented his sin.
This is the positive value of shame.
We need to be sensitive in some areas of life or we lose the ability to blush and nothing embarrasses us anymore.
We become hardened to the sinful nature of man.
This is going on all the time in our culture.
People are on talk shows openly sharing their sex life.
Articles in the paper deal with the most intimate aspects of life, which were once preserved for the eyes of professional people only.
We are an open culture, and our children now watch on TV things that would have turned most people's faces red with embarrassment only a generation ago.
There is no doubt that some openness on sensitive issues is good.
The Bible itself is quite open, but the fact is, if the openness does not carry with it a sense of shame and embarrassment it is harmful.
Paul in the last part of Romans 1 tells of how God gave people over to a depraved mind.
They felt no shame about anything.
They did every kind of wickedness and not only felt no shame, but gloried in their evil, and enjoyed the evil of others.
The worst judgment that can happen to a culture is to lose its sense of shame.
That is the bottom of the pit when man gets so depraved that nothing produces shame.
Abraham Heschel, the Jewish author, in his book What Is Man? writes, "I am afraid of people who are never embarrassed by their own pettiness, prejudices, envy and conceit, never embarrassed at the profanation of life.
What the world needs is a sense of embarrassment."
On the other hand, we have a world filled with people who are neurotic because they are ashamed and embarrassed about their bodies and their normal sex desires.
Christian counselors by the thousands are busy every day trying to help Christian people get over their shame that robs them of the joy God intended them to experience in marriage.
Shame over the legitimate enjoyment of sex is a curse.
In the Autobiography of Gandhi he tells of the night his father died.
He was by his bedside until 11 P. M. when his uncle came to relieve him.
He went to bed with his wife and enjoyed the pleasure of lovemaking.
Later the message came that his father had died.
He felt shame and wrote,
"So all was over!
I had but to ring my hands.
I felt deeply
ashamed and miserable.
I ran to my father's room.
I saw
that, if animal passion had not blinded me, I should have
been spared the torture of separation from my father during
his last moments.
I should have been massaging him, and he
would have died in my arms.
But now it was uncle who had
had this privilege.
He was so deeply devoted to his elder
brother that he had earned the honor of doing him the last
services!
My father had forebodings of the coming event.
He had made a sign for pen and paper, and had written:
'Prepare for the last rights.'
He had then snapped the
amulet off his arm and also his gold necklace of tulasi-
beads and flung them aside.
A moment after this he was
no more.
The shame, to which I have referred in a foregoing
chapter, was this shame of my carnal desire even at the
critical hour of my father's death, which demanded wakeful
service.
It is a blot I have never been able to efface or forget."
Over the years I have counseled a number of people who feel this shame and guilt because they were not there when a loved one died.
They may have been enjoying some valid pleasure of life at the time, and they are ashamed of themselves for their self-indulgence rather than self-sacrifice.
It may be just eating or sleeping, but they feel guilty and ashamed.
The goal of the counselor is to help them get beyond their neurotic shame and see that nobody can be in a state of perpetual self-denial.
Even in a crisis we need relief, and some enjoyment to balance out the burden.
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