For all those having trouble seeing the light of Truth, wherever and however the circumstance, including myself, I’m going to pray for Wisdom, strength, mercy, healing and guidance for His Glory.
I believe the good Lord certainly wants concern, but not brittleness.
Maybe society is weak. Maybe this is the only way it now has power to show its mounting displeasure.
But the result is that Target is now the target (divine pun?) of all the outrage, and that in such a way that it won’t ever reach to populations where it would do a lot more good.
Do we really think Walmart will keep its bathrooms rape-proof by not explicitly announcing something like Target did? Target only made explicit what was already implicit. They committed a sin of honesty, in one sense.
May the people begin to realize that if they do not get right with God in far more fundamental ways, and that doesn’t mean presuming to turn all society into a Christian club, God won’t prosper them otherwise as well. You can be right but dead right, as they used to teach us in driving class.
Have we ever stopped to think why it was that God wanted men to live as men, and women to live as women, and to either be chaste or to marry?
There is a whole dimension of love at stake. To nurture, to care. The most manly man is not the Napoleon figure, the macho, the ever ready to shoot rather than walk the extra mile. The most womanly woman watches how she directs her charms rather than broadcasting them to the public to get the ego trip of ogling. We can’t know all of what God intended of course, but we can know many of its broad outlines.
I see the hallmarks of a society, even a “Christian” one, turned selfish until the results have crashed in on it, and now it is suddenly taking drastic action — in one place. But the walls need to be rebuilt all over.