This is exactly what our Enemy wants to accomplish through a cultural identity change. He wants to distract us from focusing on our relationships with God and instead get us to focus on pleasing others, being enslaved to their approval. It’s easy to get caught up in the number of likes, Facebook friends, positive comments, and retweets we can accumulate. It feels good to have this seemingly clear proof that we have value, that our choices have value, that they are right. It’s intoxicating, this twenty-four-hour access to continual validation.
If the devil cannot define a persons identity he will shift the world to a place where comprimise is a comfortable place to be and being uncomfortable is a picture of being different. As soon as we rise up against it he will turn those who have grown to accept the moral difference that gods word emplies through following it.
