Re:Verse passage – 2 Peter 2:10-16 (day three)
“Daring, self-willed, they do not tremble…”
Peter speaks of people who have become numb to their feelings. Consider: trembling is the body’s response to danger detected by the nervous system. In such a case, the body is feeling and signaling the gravity of the situation. A person can over time shut down and numb that experience of the nervous system for a variety of reasons – sometimes because fear seems alien and threatening, and other things like riches or power or position can offer a distraction and an anesthetic to fear. But if a person becomes numb to feelings, he or she will try increasingly extreme behaviors in order just to feel something, anything – up to and including destructive and deceptive behavior. People who can’t feel revulsion in the presence of evil will burn themselves and others in their attempt to feel something.
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