Redefining Love and Truth

We are living in a society that has rejected truth and redefined love. - If you ask the average person what love is, you’d likely get a whole spectrum of answers, but I’d be willing to bet that most fall into 3 categories... a feeling or desire for someone, selfless help, or a vague desire not to offend. I’m going to focus mostly on the last one in this post. - Culture has largely redefined love as a movement to work to not offend anyone. Despite what they are doing and the morality or future consequences, love according to the culture, accepts and affirms the persons actions. Any talk that condemns a behavior they engage in is quickly combatted with words like hater, homophobe, elitist, cultural appropriator, and others. Is this love? - Now don’t get me wrong there are right and wrong ways to go about this and I as well as pretty much everyone else, have been guilty of doing this the wrong way. However if we truly love a person we will call out their behaviors IN LOVE. The in love part is the key. It’s not about bashing the person, but about opening their eyes to what their behavior could lead to in the future and having a desire to save them from unnecessary consequence. Bad decisions have consequences so the least loving thing we could do is allow people to make destructive decisions without at least having a conversation first. - On the flip side, it’s also listening and being understanding when someone calls you out, not immediately resorting to name calling and defending yourself. - Because the culture has rejected truth, we are stuck in a situation where words are being redefined before our eyes, and if we’re not careful, it’s easy to fall into the trap. “Wounds from a friend are faithful, but the kisses from an enemy are deceitful.” Prov 27:6 - Be blessed and stay stoked 😎🤙 -