Psalms 19:13-14
Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless, innocent of great transgression. May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
I abhor vulgarity. Even worst is in situations where Christians compromise their stand and spew what they feel is just a moment to express what everyone around is saying or a release of pent up emotions, it irks me to utter disgust.
This is why I hated the moments in Army and over the past few weekend as I caught up with new enlistees YongEn and Timothy, I couldn't help but emphasise to them the need to stay pure in speech. Almost everyone in the army would be found cursing and swearing, whether they consider themselves Christian or not.
It doesn't help that today we are exposed to vulgarities more than ever. From a regular movie to free expressions in school, its everywhere and takes a huge amount of effort to not be influenced. Sadly, it's not just the guys who will enter army that I'm worried about, the girls too are now spared. Absolute morality is in a decline, the four-letter word and all vular words are not permissible expression of our frustration or regular language which we as Christians are entitled to say.
Amongst the 8 codes of the Royal Rangers, "clean" is the one I feel most passionate about.
"A royal ranger is clean in body, mind and speech. " This is an aspect of being absolute in our faith, regardless of what the world or people around us say, think or practice.
May the words of this generation of youths and young adults be set-apart and pure.
M.
