Kool-aid for Kool Kids

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7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless 8 (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— 9 if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment.
— 2 Peter 2:7-9

So, we were at the South High commencement yesterday. It was a joyful event, especially for the graduates. When I was in high school, I was a bit of a non-conformist. But even I enjoyed the “pomp and circumstance” of my graduation. It’s because the event felt significant in terms of closing one chapter of my life and opening a new one. And I had no idea what that new chapter had in store for me, but from what I remember, I felt a little bit more grown up, somehow.

But what stuck out to me about the South commencement is a speech given by one of the student speakers. He opened with an illustration about how he had made a bet with his mother that he would only wear shorts through the entire senior year. And he was so proud that he won that bet, even when it meant many extremely cold, uncomfortable days sitting in cold classrooms. The gist of his message was “stay stubborn.” In other words, “you be you,” and “don’t let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do.” He was so proud of not giving in to his mother’s common sense.

And as I was listening to this, and as I heard people around me giving their hearty approval, the thought that was going through my head was, “Therein lines the end of civilization, if it were not for God’s sovereign hand of mercy upon us.”

Of course, this speaker was obligated to lace his message of lawlessness and self-absorbed pride with woke kool-aid comments like, “be open minded,” “be a good person,” and “do the right thing.”

I don’t understand why people today just can’t seem to see how the lawless message of “don’t let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do” (simply for the sake of pride) will always undermine what is good, and right.

I also don’t understand why people today can’t seem to comprehend the fact that morality (what is good and right) had to have come from somewhere. And that somewhere is God. In other words, people think that the notions of what is good and right just exist without really thinking about where they came from.

Morality today has just become woke-kool-aid slogans in a speech to smoke-screen the devil’s real agenda—pride that leads to anarchy, pride and anarchy that draw impressionable minds away from God.

Am I tormented in my soul by the lawlessness that I see and hear all around me? Maybe I too have drunken the kool-aid that makes me numb to the unrighteousness in this world. Maybe the kool-aid makes me numb to the unrighteousness in myself.

Father, May I be angry but not sin. May I be distressed but always act in love and grace, so that all the kool-aid drinkers will see the righteousness in me and give praise to God. In Jesus’s name. Amen.