25 | July | 2023 | the grizzle grist mill

What would you change about modern society?

If there was one thing I’d change about our modern society is to restore truth as actual truth.

It is a tragedy to watch as so many mainstream sources will flat out lie about a given situation, and although truth eventually comes out, the original lie is never accounted for, apologized for, or redacted.

It’s as if we can publicly say whatever we want, no matter if it’s slander, lies, false accusations, or what, and it’s simply to be tolerated and allowed.

Now, without getting into a political debate, I do have to say, even this allowance of fallacy seems to be catered to more on one side of the political arena than the other as well.

Even when “everyone and their brother” can recognize the falsehoods (and I’m talking blatant lies here!), we are demanded to agree, accept and comply.

And if we don’t, we are outcast, berated or just plain thrown into a camp of those who have been relegated as troublemakers or hyperbole speakers.

Whatever happened to truth in the facts?

Whatever happened to truth in the evidence?

Whatever happened to common decency in disagreements and having different sides of the same story?

Oh, right. I tend to forget…

If I disagree with you or I dislike your relative truth, I am railroaded as a hater, a radical, or someone who is just too stupid to understand these modern times and cultural issues.

Nope. Not doing it. I’m not stupid, and I work hard to never be a hater.

Relative truth will not stand the test of time.

Relative truth is based on shallow beliefs, shallow arguments, and shifting testimonies.

Relative truth has no depth because it has no substance.

When a foundation has no substance, it is unstable in all it’s ways.

When a foundation has no depth, it will crumble under any weight it needs to bear.

And you surely cannot build your life, your home or your legacy upon it.

It will be washed away by the tide of the adversity and blown away by the storms of life.

If you want this modern culture to thrive and sustain beyond this generation, somebody is going to have to rise up and start rebuilding on some absolute truths.

But I digress.

This message of absolute truth may not be the one you, my reader, wants to hear…

However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.
John 16:13-15

And you shall know thetruth, and the truth shall make you free.
John 8:32

Desires can make or break you.

Desires can thrust you into success or throw you down in shame.

And what you do with hidden desires will be the difference in honor or humiliation.

Desires have to be pulled out into the sunlight and exposed to verity and axiom.

Desires have to have the magnifying glass of honesty peered over them in full.

Desires have to be broken down with integrity and authenticity all wrapped in accountability.

Otherwise when concealed, neglected, and cloaked with insignificance, those same desires will become a dragon thirsty for flesh.

Those veiled desires throw off their disguises and unleash a furious reckoning that cannot be hinged.

So no matter how wise of a sage you have grown to be,

Those ignored desires will grow to be a beast not easily reconciled or silenced.

No matter the might you believe you posses,

No matter the expertise you trust you’ve acquired,

If those desires are held in secret, they will become your evil demise.

Reveal them to absolute truth and faithfulness, and those demons who seek your soul may be impeded and chained.

…Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
James 4:4

What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battlewithin you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
James 4:1-3

Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, yousinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
James 4:7-10