Is it me, or has the line between cool and uncool got very much thinner recently?
One of my brothers is a fashion journalist and some of the things he shoots and writes about just look plain geeky to me. He calls it ‘directional'”¦ but I am wondering, in which direction?! Years ago if people had turned up to a meeting in National Health Glasses, drainpipe jeans, an ill-fitting snood, legwarmers and captain sweepover hair, they would have been laughed out of town. Now they are the latest thing in cool and revered for looking like they were dressed by a committee of unkind blind people.

In terms of language what used to mean bad can now mean good. So someone who is “sick,” is very cool indeed. Something that is “wicked” is also rather fabulous. Someone who is ‘gangsta” is wonderful. The other day I caught a bit of radio 1 where a DJ asked a pop artist to clarify what he meant when he said his backing singer was “a real problem.” “It means she is great on the album,” he explained, laughing. WHAT??!

In terms of our society these kinds of things can be really unhelpful. I was taught the old adage that you have to “say what you mean and mean what you say.”

I think that the enemy does use things to blur reality at times. He uses words, (the things we say to ourselves and the things others say to us,) to condemn us. He also makes things appear to be harmless that are harmful and vice-versa. (emphasis on the word Vice)

We need to be aware today that the enemy does prowl around trying to find ways to take territory from us.
The reality is that no weapon formed against us shall prosper and that there is NO condemnation for those in Christ Jesus.

There is nothing blurred about that reality!