The world order as we once knew it is changing before our eyes. The reality that once felt familiar is constantly shifting. The apparent peace that seemed to reign for years suddenly appears to have collapsed. Internal conflicts are surfacing, and tensions between nations are intensifying. We are no longer only hearing rumors of war; the confrontations are already here.

What an irony that, precisely in the era of tolerance and “love is love,” the apparent peace has fractured, the love of many people has grown cold, and wickedness seems to be multiplying. Perhaps because much of that peace was more like a curtain: a façade that appeared solid but in reality lacked the deep foundations needed to sustain it. Its roots were already rotten.

Today, tolerance is often practiced within algorithms that never contradict us. And love has been reduced to an attractive slogan. We have turned love, something that should be a verb full of action, into a hollow noun.

Recently I read something that made me reflect: perhaps the world is not necessarily worse, but rather the realities that were once hidden are now coming to light. And honestly, that makes sense. Because we always reap what we sow.

If, as a society, we sow pride, lies, wickedness, and moral decay, how can we expect to harvest love, justice, and peace?

In times of uncertainty and tension like the ones we are living through, my advice to you is simple, but it requires effort:

• Practice love, even in enemy territory.
• Seek the truth, not only the reality that you like or tolerate.

I intentionally say practice love, because it is not enough to talk about it. True love must be lived, demonstrated, and exercised, even when it feels uncomfortable.

The Bible expresses this beautifully and clearly:

“Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.”
1 Corinthians 13:6

And here is something important that we need to remember today more than ever:

“Love isn’t always love.”
Not everything that is presented today as love truly is.

True love, according to 1 Corinthians 13, is not proud.
It is patient and kind.
It does not envy.
It is not boastful or arrogant.
It does not seek its own way or act improperly.
It is not easily angered and keeps no record of wrongs.
And once again: it does not rejoice in injustice but rejoices in the truth.

We are living in a crucial moment in history. Personally, I have chosen to look at these times of change with hope rather than anxiety. Because they can also be an opportunity, an opportunity to examine our hearts, our motivations, our moral compass, our values, and the foundations on which we build our lives.

The world will continue to change, but it will be your convictions that sustain you and your family when external structures no longer do. The truth will become increasingly difficult to recognize, and there is a real danger of calling good evil and evil good. That is why I pray that, in the midst of such chaotic and challenging times, true love will be your compass.

There are two signs worth watching for in our own hearts:

1. Start to worry when you feel that you can no longer forgive, and therefore can no longer love rightly.
2. Start to worry when hatred begins to disguise itself as justice within you, and revenge becomes justified in the name of peace.

Because if we do not learn to practice tolerance beyond our own algorithm, hatred will have an easy path in our hearts.

Let me give you a simple example that shows how hatred can easily disguise itself today as love or justice.

Imagine that someone you like mistreats another person. You consciously decide not to report it because the person who did it is someone you like or someone who shares your values.

Now imagine the opposite: someone you dislike commits the exact same act. In that case, you react immediately and decide to report it.

The real question is not only what you did, but why you did it.

Did your reaction come from love for the victim?
Or from the hatred you feel toward the aggressor?

The root of our motivation will always influence the harvest.

Without love, we are nothing. Because when this world passes away, love is what will remain; everything else will fade. And when you stand before God, He will not ask you how many arguments you won, but how much you loved.

But remember this: love isn’t always love.

Seek the truth.
Seek what is just.
Seek what is good.
Seek God.

Because that is love.

“Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
1 John 4:7–9

I bless you with the pure love of the father.