Society is all about survival; ‘What can we do to live? What can we do to stay relevant? We need to propagate our genes, we need to maintain our properties, etc. Anything other than this, throw it away. Any thought, plan, or action which will not help us survive, don’t listen to it!’

 Society was birth on the rock of ‘surviving’: Its fibers tuned to what it has to do to survive.

Some of its survival structure can be seen in our educational system: Society teaches you to study hard, get a good school, choose a good program, get a good job, marry, and then have a home. This is its (linear) structure. Any structure or path outside this is ‘socially unaccepted’.  It is not seen as the norm.

If someone decides to pursue his interests instead, and decides not to go according to the laid down educational structure, he is seen as an outcast. Why? Because he is ‘breaking a social structure’ which is survival conscious. Going against the grid of society’s structure is seen as a great risk (no survival guarantee). And is this true?

Look at most of the people running the world today. Are they not those who went against society’s norm? Are they not those who pursued their interests instead of society’s ‘educational system’ (employee conscious)? Exactly! Society is survival conscious and it can’t help it.

Society survival conscious is so deep that it teaches a person to get rid of anything which will threaten survival, even if the perceived threat is just a discomfort.

This teaching of society has subconsciously shaped most of us. We are being ruled by this survival instinct so much that we don’t see anything wrong with it, even if there are some hitches somewhere.

One of these hitches is in the area of love. Society’s love is selfish (“Me first”): “If it doesn’t favor me, then I will get rid of it.” With this mindset, we burn more bridges than we create any.

If a guy isn’t treating me right, I get rid of him. If a friend isn’t making me happy, we get rid of them, if this isn’t satisfying me, I get rid of it, etc. I am not saying this is bad though. I am just saying that this mindset is from the bedrock of survival. You are doing this (unconsciously) to survive. It’s fine.

But where do you stand in the Bible? Where is the Bible’s place in society? How are you to love your enemies when society is teaching you to get rid of everybody? How can you pay evil with good, when society is teaching you tit for tat is the norm?

Society doesn’t know love. It only understands ‘favoring emotional high’ (romance). And even in the course of it, should you make me angry, I will either get rid of you, or pay you back worse than you could ever think. This is SURVIVAL. It isn’t Love.

Do you want to know what love actually is? “Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have. Loves doesn’t strut, doesn’t have a swelled head, doesn’t force itself on others, ISN’T always ‘ME FIRST’, doesn’t fly off the handle, doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, doesn’t revel when others grovel, takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, puts up with anything, trusts God always, always looks for the best, never looks back, but keeps going to the END. LOVE NEVER DIES.” [1 Corinthians 13:4-8MSG]

Society may mean well with its survival instinct, but the error which exist is when society tries to enforce its survival formula as the only formula to be obeyed. That is wrong. We know people who didn’t go according to society’s survival formula, yet they survived, and even helped others up.

So many big companies were built out of the pursuit of interests, and not only educational survival formula. In saying this, I would like to bring this to your understanding that, society’s goal is to survive, but God’s Word is supreme. If you finish your years on earth as you were surviving, what next? What happens after death? Do you have an after death insurance?

Your only ‘after death insurance’ is how far you obeyed the Word of God. Don’t discard society though; its rules is for your survival. But in all things, in all your decisions, make sure God’s Word comes first. Make sure you obey what God’s Word says, before you check out what society would say.

In situations where what the Word of God is advising, and what society is telling you is different, I tell you, choose the Word of God. Because, heaven and earth (society) will pass away, BUT, the Word of God SHALL NOT pass away.

Stay Blessed.

#Does society know love?

#Society is all about survival [no space for try and error].

Amen