Proverbs- Part 2

As a whole, my generation hates correction. Now, I'm sure this has been the case at one point for nearly every generation, since it has likely been the case for every person at one point or another. However, my generation has practically rebuilt our lives on this idea. We hate correction so much so that we've abolished truth altogether and figured out how to claim that it simply does not exist. Instead, we prefer to free fall in this deconstructed idealism of ambiguous morality and therefore strip any right of one person to question another, much less suggest something different than what we are doing.

Anyone who is not a millennial and currently reading this is likely having a small party right now. A millennial admitted one of the many stereotypes that exist against them to be true! They really are terrible!  

Yes, it is true that my generation has rejected the idea of truth, and refuses anyone to be "right" or "wrong"-but we are not the only victims of this philosophy. Across cultures, gender, and yes, even age, everyone around us has bought into it. 

The generations before us are now echoing back the post a modernistic concept of no truth and no reality that we adopted and embraced into mainstream culture for the sake of sparing the world of discipline and correction. It is in our classrooms, in our media, everywhere.

Sure, this might sound like a perfect world, where nothing can be wrong. However, when we rebuke correction and discipline, we devalue the power of the gospel itself. 
If we, as Christians, choose to endorse the notion that we cannot be corrected because what is "true for me" may not be "true for you" we discredit Scripture for being an alive, breathing Word of God that truly has the power to change lives.

Not only does the refusal of correction devalue Gods Word, but it ultimately prevents our growth as Christians, and as people. To try and build our character on a constantly shifting, ambiguous moral ground that is forever effected by the tide of culture is the equivalent of building one’s house on shifting sand. Where there is little to stand on, there is little to uphold us and our conviction. But when we receive and embrace correction in a loving, constructive context, we build our houses upon the Rock. The rock that is truth, the rock that is love, the rock that is Christ.

This week, I challenge you (myself certainly included) to examine your attitudes on correction. Are you willing to sacrifice a moment's pride to enrich your life and build your identity in Christ, or are you tempted by the illusive, indefinable ideals that the world sells you?

Written by: Bri Vanderveen

Edited by: Tamara Sturdivant