I finally understand why this was bothering me yesterday.
"Over the next few months": because of the election. Meaning people are going to have heightened emotions and they're going to be acting foolishly and emotionally. We are the salt of the earth that rebukes emotional foolishness.
"Don't be divisive": again, because of the election coming up. But Christians are intrinsically divisive. Christ talks about this in the new testament. We're not divisive for the sake of conflict, but we are divisive for the sake of confrontation because light must confront darkness.
I totally agree about resisting cheap digs, but memes are not intrinsically evil. They actually do a better job of revealing the truth than our mainstream media does.
I just did a podcast about creating beautiful content so I agree with that 100%
This last part about transcending bitterness and being better just comes across as suggesting that we ignore bad behavior and rise above it. Maybe it will go away. And I don't think that it's true. Evil people get upset when you don't join in with their evil so they will persecute you.
On the surface this post seems very flowery, but deep down it comes off as cowardly. The context that it's coming from a lot of spiritual leaders suggest to me that maybe these are the same people that were complicit in the shutting down of churches and locking us in our houses because they didn't want to stir the pot. I think a lot of these leaders are scared, and they should be scared because they sat back and watched evil persecute half the country for four years and did nothing about it. They didn't speak up about it. They wouldn't condemn BLM. They wouldn't condemn the riots. They just hoped that if they were quiet they would rise above. They were cowardly.
Meanwhile, many of us did speak up against the evils and we were persecuted for it, and those same spiritual leaders sat back and watched as we were torn apart and did nothing to help alleviate us.
And so now a lot of those same people are coming back to morally grandstand when they should be repenting and apologizing. And the fact that none of them have asked for forgiveness or admitted to wrongdoing makes it worse. And it makes people even angrier and feel more betrayed deep down.
But looking at the temperature of this country I guess it's to be expected. I am reading a lot into this and this is my interpretation, but I actually prayed about this and chewed on it all night because it was bothering me on a deep level.
In Revelation 21: 8, it is the cowardly who were the first ones to be condemned, even before the unbelieving.
And now I understand why this post bothers me so much.
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