I've been hearing a lot about people being "triggered". I've seen some of the videos on youtube of people just losing their minds over one little word. And, I wonder what has happened to people.
This last election really brought it out. Things have been said by Presidential candidates that are very offensive over the years. But, those things can be overlooked if you're voting for that person. But, if that person is the candidate for the opposing party, well their "vulgar words" can't be forgiven!
These triggered people only hear and see what they want to when it benefits what they believe.
But, it's nothing new. It happens when people start to look at what they believe they are entitled to instead of being thankful for what they have.
Israel was the same way in both the Old Testament and the New Testament.
Isaiah 29:21- That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
The Jews in Isaiah's day were making men an offender for a word. They were triggered!
God sent them into the Babylonian captivity, and then after 70 years sent them back to their land. They got to rebuild their temple, and the wall around Jerusalem. They were sent the Messiah. And then the Apostles.
And yet, their leaders hearts never changed.
Acts 22:21-22- And he said unto me, Depart: for I will send thee far hence unto the Gentiles. And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
Paul was giving his testimony, and they were listening because he was speaking in Hebrew. But, once he said the word "Gentiles" that was it; they were triggered! According to them he should die.
Really? But, I'm sure they said things that were offensive!
James 3:2- For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
There was only one perfect man to ever walk the earth. And, guess what? They got offended by Him!
The very word of God is offensive to someone who wants to justify their sin.
Jeremiah 8:9- The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
Jeremiah was speaking out against the so-called wise men of his day because they said they had the words of the Lord, but they didn't. When the real words of the Lord came from His prophet look how they responded.
Jeremiah 18:18- Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
They went about trying to devise ways to get rid of the guy! Sound familiar? They said they weren't going to listen to anything he said, because it offended them- even if what he said was right. That's happening today! They were going to slander him. What?!?!
What does God think of these triggered whiny babies?
Proverbs 13:13a- Whoso despiseth the word shall be destroyed:
Isaiah 30:12-13- Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: Therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.
God said they're going to be taken in a sudden destruction. This is going to be both in their personal lives and on a national level!
If you follow the same path that these people followed, then you're going to be devastated. And, when the time comes that you're ready to finally hear the word that God has for you...
Amos 8:12- And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
Now is the time to humble yourself. Don't be a whiny baby who gets offended by a word.
