Enough!

I got my new "completely in the canal" hearing aids. I have thirty days now to see if they change my life. If I decide they don't, I can still get my money back. While they initially felt like someone sticking their fingers in my ear, I quickly adjusted. I forget for longer periods of time that  I even have them in after just the second day of wearing them. They are very discreet, but if someone is looking for them from the side, one can tell I am wearing hearing aids. I am on the youngish side for that, but after multiple ear infections as a kid, I have moderate hearing loss and I have grown weary of straining so hard to hear what people are saying to me. I do feel a little self conscious, but after the newness wears off, I assume I will forget they are there and instead of lip-reading and guessing, I will actually know what people are saying. They are quite high-tech for such tiny devices. They will automatically adjust to the sound needs in varying environments. They even have a little warning chime to alert me when it is time to change the batteries. In my case, if they shut off because of dead batteries, it is not a terrible big deal. I hear adequately without them, but I hear well with them.

As I was driving testing out my new hearing aids with the radio, I heard a commercial for men who want to "improve their performance" in great detail. I won't go into the specifics, but this was on a radio station which families with kids listen to every day, and suddenly, I wanted to jump out of the car. Since when is this considered family fare? Since when do we become so desensitized to propriety and private matters that we don't bat an eye when these commercials air? I wish we could all wear a device called a "moral aid." It seems that many of us could use one. Something that adjusts the degradation of our values, and raises them back up to an acceptable level. We are dripping like wax into the fires of Hell, and we don't even know it. Women pull into the abortion clinic with stickers on their cars for popular new megachurches and don't even see the disconnect. Rock stars dance about with pants that droop to their knees, thinking we all want to and even more despairingly should see their underwear. Commercials from Victoria Secret look like peep shows in cheap "adult only" warehouses with no windows. What is wrong with us??? Television, video games, and movies are overwhelmingly violent and sexualized. Are we really all that morally tone deaf that we think this is good?

When are we going to collectively cry out, "Enough!" ?(ouch...I need to shout that a little more quietly while wearing my hearing aid....) The change will unfortunately not come from external props. However, we do have a 'moral aid' of sorts, but Jesus only installs Himself if we ask Him into our heart. And if we remove the 'battery' of faith, He stops working. He does give warning sounds when that battery is fading, and unlike a dying battery with my hearing aid, we ignore those warnings to our peril.

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John 10:27 

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

Romans 10:17 

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Jeremiah 33:3 

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

John 8:47 

Whoever is of God hears the words of God. The reason why you do not hear them is that you are not of God.”

Isaiah 30:21 

And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.