Not Cool

I have noticed that when older people like something, teenagers immediately think it’s not cool anymore. I overhear things like:

“Remember when Facebook used to be cool, before all these old folks got on it?”

“Remember when the word ‘cool’ was cool? But now we have to come up with a new word every week, because our parents start repeating whatever we come up with?!”

Basically, the approval of older people usually leads to the disapproval of younger people.

I thought of this when I read the following verse:

“If you lived on the world’s terms, the world would approve of you as one of its own. But since I picked you to live on God’s terms and no longer on the world’s terms, the world is going to disapprove of you.” (John 15:18-19 MSG words in italics have been changed by me)

There is no way to have both—live on the world’s terms and live on God’s terms—to gain the world’s approval as well as God’s.

We are going to have to make a choice and live with the consequences.

“Out of all the voices calling out to me
I will choose to listen and believe the voice of truth.”

(Lyrics from ‘Voice of Truth’ by Casting Crowns)