Re:Verse passage – Ephesians 5:8-14 (day three)
“It is disgraceful even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.”
One might read this passage and conclude that it’s giving Pharisee. As in, “God, I thank you that I’m not like this person here because I don’t stoop to the level of acknowledging those shameful things.” The sense of these remarks by Paul is not the policing or surveillance of conversations people have, though, but rather the beauty and elegance of people whom God has made and who bear his image. Paul isn’t saying, “Watch your language,” but instead, “As we necessarily speak of horrific things, we remember with sorrow that with each deed of darkness the glory of a living, breathing human being is abused and disrespected.”
