Friday, March 20, 2026
“They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you” (Galatians 4:17,18 KJV).
Let us see if we can identify and comprehend the dangers of relying on emotions….
Every generation likes the word “free,” but today’s young people are particularly fascinated with it—free tuition, free housing, free transportation, free healthcare, free this and free that. Accordingly, they also tend to be less enthusiastic to work. Pleasure and amusement are popular. They believe they “deserve” to have all their wants. Due to technological achievements and modern conveniences of recent decades, never in our species’ history has there ever been a time of such universal entertainment and entitlement! It feels SO GOOD, especially when following “the blind leaders of the blind” who are equally emotional.
Their above “spoiled-rottenness” is the least of their problems though, for they are even misinformed about fundamental, more personal matters. Sexuality is a basic human trait. Any experimenting with it produces extensive and permanent psychological, emotional, and physical damage. Strangely, some biological men claim to “feel like women” and some biological women state they “feel like men,” so they have “gender-affirming” surgery! Yet, this is our world. Physical organs, they tell us, do not define sex—but, in the same breath, they assert their removal does “affirm” it. This is ridiculous, nothing a thinking person would state! However, an emotional individual would say it, and young people have become more tolerant of such perversion. No amount of propaganda, brainwashing, or emotional exploitation can (or will) ever justify that which is contrary to nature.
“Sex” is the biological characteristic of being male or female (emphasis on reproductive organs), whereas “gender” is the role a male or female plays (focus on society/culture). The Oxford English Dictionary defines “gender dysphoria” as “the condition of feeling one’s emotional and psychological identity as male or female to be opposite to one’s biological sex.” Notice the term “feeling:” transgenderism is emotion-driven, the main “confirmation” being really nothing more than fickle feelings. I can “feel” like a lost man on my merry way to Hell, but I am anything but because my renewed mind knows (thinking!) that I am in Christ and therefore bound for Heaven!
We cannot trust feelings….
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