Embody Reverence Or Die By 1000 Irreverent Cuts

Alchemize your rebellious energy into humble devotion toward God instead of letting that energy poison everything sacred.

For years, people called me irreverent. They weren't wrong.

I distrusted institutions that deserved no trust. Political systems, corporate hierarchies, educational bureaucracies—all jokes masquerading as authority. My default mode was skeptical, cynical, anti-establishment. I built huge social media followings embodying what I felt to be the public's demand for irreverent truth-telling. It felt justified because the systems were broken.

But I realized something dangerous: irreverence as a general posture becomes spiritual poison. When you treat nothing as sacred, you eventually treat your own life as disposable.

My friendship with Tim Joo has reinforced this for me. We are mirrors for each other. Superficially, both of us have fallen short of where we should be. Both have made countless mistakes. But our friendship operates from reverence—deep love, deep trust, deep desire to see each other grow closer to God. We joke, we send each other absurd social media posts, but the foundation is sacred.

This is what I missed for too long: the problem isn't being irreverent toward corrupt institutions. The problem is letting that irreverence infect how you treat God, yourself, and the people He's placed in your life.

Every flippant act that dishonors God is a cut. Every broken promise is a cut. Every time you treat your life—made in His image—as ordinary instead of miraculous, that's another cut. You can die a spiritual death this way, one small irreverence at a time.

"But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea." — Matthew 18:6

The "little one" you're causing to sin might be yourself. Every irreverent choice teaches your soul that nothing matters. That becomes a habit. That habit becomes a character. That character becomes a destiny.

Here's the alchemy: channel your irreverent energy toward fewer targets. Spend less time thinking about failing systems (unless it is your specific calling to fix them). And instead, reserve your reverence for what actually matters—God, your calling, the relationships He's given you as gifts.

Your life is not ordinary. Start treating it like the miracle that it is.