Becoming increasingly prevalent is the concept of safe spaces, defined as areas intended to be free of bias, conflict, criticism, or potentially threatening actions, ideas, or conversations.
In an effort to minimize or silence opposing perspectives, challenge and debate is often made equivalent to violence. However, it is the suppression of truth that is particularly dangerous.
This reluctance for truth has prompted many to flee from the safest space, the will of God, our Creator, where even there He lovingly challenges our views for the purpose of having our desires be surrendered to His own. He longs for us to know and live in the truth, which brings freedom.
While the latter half of Matthew 22:37-38, “love your neighbor as yourself” has been widely used to enforce the modern safe space’s agenda, what is equally vital is the former half, “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your mind.”
In closing, if God were to reveal to us a personal longing is in conflict with His design, do we then love Him enough to vacate our “safe space” and enter into His presence, where there is love, acceptance, and, more importantly, transformation?
The safest space is the arms of the Heavenly Father saying to Him, “Not my will, but Your will be done.”
