“God is Love”...But God is also Truth…..
Deuteronomy 32:4
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgement: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
I watched a series on YouTube last week entitled "War on Truth" by The Fuel Project. The series was a complete confirmation for me in many areas that I see brewing in our modern society. It sparked me to want to start blogging again and so, here I am.
Have you noticed lately how things are really spiraling out of control? In this day and time, people have exalted love over truth when they are meant to balance each other out. No one wants anyone to be uncomfortable or have their feelings hurt - which sometimes telling the truth does. As the video says, people are more apt to side with the "underdog" even if they are wrong because no one wants anyone to feel marginalized. Some call it having grace and mercy or being “nice” and “kind”. On the other spectrum, you have others who feel you have to fight for love, and stand strong for those long time held traditions of what love is. But without truth to balance it, all love becomes... is an idol.
Society is willingly bypassing what it knows to be intrinsically true to let other people do, feel, believe and fight for what they want - even if what they want goes completely against truth and reason. This leads them to turn on others who do not agree even if they point out true logic, hypocrisies and dangers. This is why grown men are allowed to believe they can be a non-uterus having, non-milk-making, non-XX chromosome baring woman and women can be a non-testicle having, non-semen-making, non-XY chromosome baring man. And in some cases neither man or woman, but animals or a man who believes he's a woman who believes he's furniture for that matter! As an aside, I find it very odd that people are not batting an eye at the fact this man thinks he's a woman, but they are trying to get him help because he also think he's furniture. But, I digress...This is also why people will argue with, discredit, disconnect from, and in some cases out right assault and kill those who do not "love their country/flag/anthem" the way they do. And let's not just limit the examples to these few - there are several other examples where love presides high above truth - we see it in churches as members protect their pastors, families, relationships, and friendships. Oh yes, people are willing to turn a blind eye because of the idol worship of the god “love”. This becomes a curse.
Exodus 20:3-5King James Version (KJV)
3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
The truth is we have replaced Yahweh-God for one of His attributes. We have gone from "God is love" taken from 1 John 4 beginning at verse 7, to "OUR god is Love", taken from people's twisted meaning of that scripture. Here is how you can tell something is someone's idol - if you take it away, they become volatile, combative, depressed, unwilling to reason, restless, hurt....you get the picture.
See, Yahweh-God is not just "love", because in His love, He is the God of truth. He hates lies (Proverbs 6:16-17 , Proverbs 12:22 , Ephesians 4:22-25 ). It is not loving to lie to someone to make them feel better. Lies are meant to control. If you can control the information the person receives (or doesn’t) you can then control the outcomes skewed in your favor. Because in His love He requires truth, He is the perfect example of what balance looks like. He loves us enough to tell us the truth. Are you an adulterer? He loves you enough to tell you the truth: through His Son He tells you to leave that behind, and SIN no more, or face the consequences of eternal separation from Him. And if you don’t “believe”, that doesn’t make what He says any less true. He doesn’t want you to be comfortable and therefore ignore unrighteousness (wrong-doing). No! He wants you to have life abundantly. He wants you to be whole. He wants you to be holy. He wants you to have all of the information so that you can make an informed decision with no pieces missing.
So yes, God is love…..but He also demands that there be truth. We can unite through truth which leads to perfect love and balance. Without them both we will continue to create an unbalanced world where things that are wrong (unrighteous), relative morals, confusion, and chaos will abound. This will be the inheritance of our children.
2 Thessalonians 2:10-13
....because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.
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