Ever notice how some people joke about immorality?

Our culture treats moral failure, not as tragedy, but as entertainment.

Behind the laughter, however, are real stories of broken families, devastating consequences, and shattered

trust.

Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindoll gets personal about moral purity.

He shares his own story about facing overwhelming temptation as a young Marine.

Stationed in Okinawa, Chuck was surrounded by godless living, and he was far from home.

From his series titled Contagious Christianity, Chuck presents what he calls straight talk about moral purity.

Turn over to the dusty old ancient writings of a sixth century prophet named Habakkuk.

We're not familiar with him, but we surely are with his times. He's a man who lived in the fog. His book is an ancient call to repentance.

It is a cry to God who is holy for some intervention. It's not just a cry, it's a scream.

He says, how long, oh Lord, will I cry for help?

And you will not hear.

I cry out to the violence.

And yet you don't deliver.

Why?

Those questions sound familiar? How long? Why? Why don't you unfold your arms and get

with it in this old polluted world of ours? Why don't you say, why do you make me see iniquity and cause me to look on wickedness?

Yet destruction and violence are before me. Strife exists and contentions arise.

Therefore the law is ignored. Justice is never upheld. The wicked surround the righteous.

Therefore, justice comes out perverted. Verse 12, I thought you were holy. Aren't you holy?

Scholar Kyle Yates is right.

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