A Man Never Ashamed
"Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments" -- Psalm 119:6
The look of shame on his face was pathetic. He was an old friend. It had been a long while since I had seen him. As I remembered him, in former days, he was a man of cheerful countenance and able to look his fellow men full in the face with a straight, clear eye. Now as I greeted him, his eyes fell and a dark shadow spread upon his countenance. I understood, for I had seen the story of his sin which had been published in the newspapers and which now I saw plainly published upon his
face.
Sin has a way of leaving upon its victims a mark of shame. If a man has any conscience, he cannot do wrong and then go out and look the world straight in the eye. His wrongdoing makes him ashamed of himself, and marks his face with ashamed expression when he appears before his fellow men.
"Then shall I not be ashamed." When? When does a man have nothing to be ashamed of? To ask the question is to answer it. We know the answer as well as David knew it. Our own conscience answers, "When I have respect unto all thy commandments.
"It is doing wrong that makes men ashamed. We are never ashamed of doing right. We know the divine "precepts concerning all things to be right"—as David tells us. And as long as we govern our conduct by these precepts we are never ashamed of what we do.
