When did this become the norm?

Today on my way home from work, my ears were defiled! I was stopped at a light with my windows down, the car next to me also had the windows down. This is when the assault against my eardrums happened. The driver had his stereo blaring (I am okay with loud music I play my music loud), the words of song playing were the most heinous lyrics i’ve ever heard. The rapper was saying the most degrading, disgusting things. He talked about women like they were slaves and worthless. He talked about his mother, his grandmother as though they weren’t even human. He talked about human life as though it was his job to decide who lived and died. It made me angry just listening to it. But it was down right painful to realize that society finds nothing wrong with that. In our world today, this is the norm…the musical stamdard. We have become immune. But yet still we wonder why crime has skyrocketed? Why murder and rape are prominent? We have made good things bad, and bad things good. We have (musically speaking) allowed a whole generation to be raised by gangsters. How did we get here? Compromise. You let one little thing slide and it causes and avalanche. The take away: watch your words because someone is listening, and they might just believe what you say is true. Can we go back? On our own, no. But God…with Him ALL things are possible

” With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse human beings, who have been made in God’s likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?” (James 3:9-11).

So what am I thankful for today? That God is still God, no matter how upside down the world has become.