Trendy

The cultural of the world constantly changes and that of those who live in the United States of America see new trends on a constant basis.  One who is trendy tends to be one who follows the current trend or influence, fashion and ideologies.

 

 

For years I have tried to figure out how society can be so wrong and the collective, hive-mind mentality that goes behind that.  Ask anyone nowadays and they will tell you that families have fallen apart, lives are being destroyed, people are more alienated from normal forms of conversation and have become more distanced in terms of relationships, despite new forms of communication that allow for constant status updating, connecting to one another through social media and an onslaught of instant notification through text messaging, email, cellular phones and other venues.

 

 

Yet with all of these options at our fingertips, a true Believer can see these things and also see the amount of sin that society engages in as a whole.  They willingly seem to love things that are contrary to God and furthermore purport through their trendy actions that nothing is wrong with the way they behave.  They are without God, not only do their actions prove it, but by their actions they prove that they are brute beasts.  Harsh?  There are two passages of Scripture that has long spoke to my heart about today’s society.

 

“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, unyielding, slanderers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power.  And from such people turn away.”  2nd Timothy 3:1-5

 

And…

 

“Preach the Word.  Be ready in season and out of season.  Convict, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching.  For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own lusts, desiring to hear pleasant things, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to myths.”  2nd Timothy 4:2-4

 

Just because “everyone is doing it” doesn’t make it right.  There is no justification of sin through the collective of sinners.

 

“Do not be led astray, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.  For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap eternal life.”  Galatians 6:7-8

 

“There is a way which seems right to a man, but the end of it is the ways of death.”  Proverbs 14:12

 

Certainly it was never trendy to follow God, the masses have always followed satan and that path leads to Hell.  Will you go along with the masses and be trendy unto death, not seeking His Son, not repenting of your sins or will you stop and consider that the ways of the world are not His way?

 

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many entering in through it.  Because narrow is the gate and distressing is the way which leads unto life, and there are few who find it.”  Matthew 7:13-14

 

“And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God.  And books were opened.  And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life.  And the dead were judged according to their works, out of the things which were written in the books.  And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them.  And they were judged, each one, according to their works.  And Death and Hades were cast into the Lake of Fire.  This is the second death.  And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire.”  Revelation 20:12-15