Here recently there has been a big stir, a funk if you will,
surrounding our president’s latest decision regarding same sex marriage. This
post, which has nothing to do with the content, is just my transparent thoughts
on paper…. Well blog. I may have a few standing with me and few more that will
attack me. I am now okay with that.
The very first time I heard the word “homosexual” was with
the actor, Rock Hudson, dying from AIDs, this new disease to which a frenzy was
created. I can remember parents running to schools and snatching their kids out
because of children who contracted this scary disease by way of blood
transfusion. It seemed that even the smallest baby had done something to catch
this “gay disease.” People became instant
doctors and judges when it came to who had and why they had AIDs. It was a sad
time for this country.
What I also saw was an enormous amount picketing, screaming,
judgmental, holier than thou Bible beaters that hid behind the name Christians.
Funny that I always said to myself, “Self, remind me to never be one of them.”
I had tolerance for those who were sick; those who America had assumed had
started this epidemic, the homosexual community. I wasn’t that old (nice try)
but I knew I did not want to be part of a people who only had hatred dripping
from their lips. It was “homo this” and “gay that.” Let’s not mention the
multitude of abortion clinics blown up or at least the women who were pushed into
having abortions because they would rather be in the clinic than with the
poison spewing folks outside the doors calling them baby killers and announcing
that they and the clinic workers inside were ALL going to Hell. I began to
think that maybe people with money and high positions in the church could change
not only your departure time from this earth but also your destination, thank
God they can’t!
I said all that to say, here is my standing ground on this
subject. I DO believe that most are born “that way”, but not the “way” they are
thinking. I believe there is a spirit that is assigned to some of us to make us
completely miserable with life and relationships until we come to the
conclusion that we are a certain way, accept it and then live what I call the death
style. It’s not enough to accept that you are attracted to the same sex as you,
it’s not enough speak it out loud; this spirit is not doing its job unless we
are walking this out. I call this a death style for one reason, God is against
it. If my Father is against the lifestyle, then so am I.
Please notice that I did not say I am against the people who
live this style of life, and neither is He. He loves them regardless. He is not
pleased, He does not like what they have chosen, and because of that He has
given them over to their sin, much like a parent does a wayward child, BUT GOD
does NOT hate the person!! There is a saying that goes, Hate the SIN, love the
SINNER. So many in the Church, including my pre-saved and newly saved self,
have gotten the two mixed up and even put their own spin on things. They have begun
to hate other SINNERS while loving their own SIN.
This is what I feel the Church needs to begin to cry out for
forgiveness. We have turned a generation of people against us, not because of
the things we do like Jesus, which He has said would get us persecuted, but
because we have poured more hate on these lost souls more than the world has.
And now the world has begun to embrace them in an effort to keep them bound!
What are we doing about it? Sitting on the sidelines drawing in the sand, when
we have no idea what it was Jesus was even drawing, and it’s in the wrong
context! We need begin loving each other first, because if we can’t love each
other, how will we love anyone else? Once we get that, we need to be reaching
out into the very places we have frowned upon and judged to snatch our brother
and sisters out of there. And for those that decide to stay or run back, we
need to show them love as well.
Listen, I have friends and family members who are
homosexual. There is NO way I will turn my back on them! I support them to the
fullest! What I do NOT support is their way of life, for no other reason than
when they die, that’s it! I will never see them again! I can’t stand to think
of that. I do not support what God does not support, but the people living that
way or doing that thing, I will continue to love based on the fact that while I
was yet a sinner, in the deep thick blackness of my sin, Christ died for me.
Not because he was told to, not because he knew he had to, not because it was the
only way to save me, but because he loved me!
Know this; my love will not stop flowing with those living
this style of life on my page and in my life. I will not turn my back on them
and there is NO way I will abandon them! That does NOT make me tolerant or
accepting, it makes me obedient to His command for us all. To love my
neighbors. Will you do the same?
Now here is a couple of housekeeping items, as they are
often called. I do not accept profanity from anyone. If you disagree with this
post, message me. Know that I operate with discernment and Proverbs 26:4-5 guides
when it comes to answering or not. Also know if you are living this lifestyle
and choose to copy and paste this blog to spew out poison against me, I, like
my Lord and Savior, will NOT be moved! And I STILL love you! This is not to
force or scare you into a relationship with Christ, it’s not to condemn you or
to point fingers. It is merely to say I love you as Christ loves you and I am
so sorry for what the imposter pew dwellers and surface Christians have done
and said! Jesus is NOT like that! He loves you just as you are; He also loves
you enough to want more for you!!
