Being Past Feeling

September 4

"This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord,
that you should no longer walk
as the rest off the Gentiles walk,
in the futility of their mind,
having their understanding darkened,
being alienated from the life of God
because of the ignorance that is in them,
because of the blindness of their heart;
who, being past feeling,
have given themselves over to lewdness,
to work all uncleanness with greediness."
Ephesians 4:17-19

"who being past feeling…"

I once had a married friend who was beginning an affair with another man and I spoke to her about it, asking how she could do such a thing. Her response was that she felt a lot of guilt the first time, but that afterwards she felt less and less as time went on and now just didn't feel guilty at all.

She was "past feeling." Her conscience became seared. I saw it with my own eyes.

"...having their own conscience seared with a hot iron..."
1 Timothy 4:2

This was an example to me as I watched as she was given over to a debased mind.

"...and even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a debased mind..."
Romans 1:28

Don't think it can't happen to you if you're flirting with sin, any sin. Eventually it won't hurt your conscience anymore - when the Holy Spirit has left you. Don't try it. Don't flirt with it.

"Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.
Do not cast me away from your presence,
and do not take your Holy Spirit from me."
Psalm 51:10-11

Take heed that you be not deceived and lured into something you would not have wanted to be immersed in.