Not only is God perfectly wise, sovereign, good, and holy — He absolutely loves to flex on the proud.
Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.
—Proverbs 3:34
and
Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
—James 4:6
The month of June was an absolute masterclass in God getting the last word on human pride. “Pride Month” is what the pagans call it. June is a month dedicated to mocking the Creator, bucking His law, and putting every debased practice a human can conceive of on full display.
The Sexual Revolution of the 60’s sought to tear down every boundary created and maintained by God. God forbids sex acts between unmarried men and women, so The Revolution normalized fornication. The Creator calls homosexuality and cross-dressing an “abomination,” so The Revolution created the LGBTQ+ community and the Pronoun Police.
For this revolution to feel “freeing,” however, it needed abortion. This was the engine that made it all possible. The Sexual Revolution needed the “right” to murder children in the womb in order to remove the natural consequences of sin.
Pride Month and Legal Baby Murder, the rotten fruit of The Revolution, appeared to have the upper hand.
“But God”
The pattern is displayed all through Biblical history: Satan appears to have the upper hand, perhaps even the victory, but God enters the narrative and takes an overwhelming “W.” Noah’s Flood, the Tower of Babel, King Nebuchadnezzar, the list goes on and on. The greatest example of God handing Satan an “L” is the cross. Satan appears to destroy the entire human race for good in the Garden of Eden, but Adam’s Fall instead provides a glorious platform through which God can rescue sinners and redeem the world through the death, burial, and resurrection of His Son.
Scott Christensen and I talked about this last week on the TheoBros Podcast. Adam fell in the Garden of Eden, yes, but it was a “Fortunate Fall,” a “Felix Culpa.” Christians are united to Christ, seated in the Heavenly Places with Him — new creations. We are an infinitely-better version of Adam because of our union and position in Christ. Adam walked with God in the Garden, but he never had what we have.
The Glorious “Flex” of God
That brings us to the latest example of God handing Satan the “L.”
Dr. Owen Strachan of Grace Bible Theological Seminary put it best on Facebook,
They thought they had taken over June as “Pride Month”; they thought they owned it now, and that we could only bow down to their reign.
They didn’t know that God had a takeover of His own planned, and that by His grace alone, June is now forever, UNALTERABLY, Life Month.
God wins again.
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