I
accept and respect every people, whether straight or a member of LGBT community because that
is what Jesus did and continues to do, the love and grace of God cares for all
kinds of people whether straight or homosexuals. Jesus’ death on the cross
applies to all people past, present and future, it has the power to cleanse all
forms of sins, whether sins of straight or homosexuals.
But
since we are talking about same sex marriage, I can’t help but wonder, what
kind of rights do we, as Bible believing Christians tread on when we oppose to
this so-called right of transgender? Practicing homosexuality is something the
Bible is against with, it is not us who authored it but the God of the Bible,
the God Almighty who created man and woman and fashioned them according to His
own image. When God created man and woman, He commanded them to subdue and
replenish the earth; this was given to them in order to fill the earth with
people that would suppose to give glory to God, people who will reflect God’s
image. But since man was tarnished by sin, people decided to follow their own
free will, a path that is so far from what God has designed them to be.
Sin
ruined everything; God’s dream for man, His design even for marriage and for
sex was ruined because it was perverted by the father of lies and deception:
Satan. Homosexuality was first mentioned in the account of Lot in Genesis 19.
Followed in Leviticus 18 and 20, if God so warned the house of Israel against
such practice: a man lying with man as with a woman and vice-versa is an
abomination, we who desired to follow God must live not according to that practice which Apostle Paul called "unnatural" but according to the standard of holiness as defined in the Bible for God
condemns all forms of sexual immorality [see Romans 1:25-27, 1st
Timothy 1:8-10.]
People
who chose to live by this lifestyle wanted their rights to marry to be heard,
they voiced their concern on streets, television, internet and other networking
sites, even using the Bible as their means to justify, interpreting the Bible
according to what their itching ears want to hear, [2nd Timothy 4:3
“For
the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to
suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers
to say what their itching ears want to hear.]
I
would like to emphasize that God authored marriage between man and woman; this
is the original plan and prayerfully will continue before life on earth cease
to exist. Offspring is given as a gift to couple, a reminder of God’s love and
at the same time of the love of two people joined in holy matrimony. Children
will live their life and patterned their growth from the gentleness of their
mothers and learn to live from the strength of their fathers. In the absence of
role models for growing children will somehow affect their choices. I am not
saying that children with the presence of a man and woman as their parents will
not experience struggles like this, but should we consider this all the more?
If children suffer that kind of apprehension in the presence of man and woman
parents, how much more trepidation they will experience in the absence of
either the man or the woman as their parents? Now, couple who are childless are an exception to the rule, I myself am childless because of a series of miscarriage but, cases like this will never change how marriage should be and must be even if government supersedes what God intended it to be.
Though
there are cases where homosexual partners successfully brought their children
up as a responsible people in the community but it is a rarity. This is not a challenge
for homosexual parents but based on Biblical truths. The command to love is
given to husbands, to love their wives not to husbands, and the command to
respect is given to wives to respect their husbands not to wives. Such
wonderful truth of orderliness in the family will motivate their children to
obey their parents in order to attain life with a promise.
The
purpose why I am writing this is not to pass judgment to members of LGBT community, but to
also voice my concerns about the downside of same sex marriage, it is my prayer
that as people, let us not exalt our rights above the One who made us
righteous, yes we have human rights but our human rights must not go against
the principles and standards of the Word of God, where this nation and its Constitution were founded. The US Supreme court may legalized same sex marriage in its 50 states, but one thing I assure you, there is a much higher court where everyone of us will answer for, the nation who has turned against God and removed Him from His place of sovereignty will suffer great loss as we have witness this in the history of Israel because of their rebellion. Same sex marriage is a direct rebellion against God, His Word, His holiness and His design. I fear for for the nation of America as well as other nations who will legalized and have legalized same sex marriage.
On
the other hand, I would like to make an appeal to all Christians; I was moved
by one of the clips I watched from YouTube about “Why People Don’t Go to
Church?” It is because the church who is supposed to love like Jesus’ loves,
care like Jesus’ cares and accept like Jesus’ accepts are not seen in the
church. The church becomes so legalistic to implement their rules so as to push
people away from the grace of God. What I have learned from that video clip is
something I want to apply in my life, to love people and to care for them so
they too like me will find the truth and the power of God’s grace. I accept
people with this kind of orientation as human, worthy to be love, cared and
accepted, they have the rights to the forgiveness of God, they have the right
to His favor and to His grace, they have their place on Jesus’ cross at the
Calvary. They do not need condemning eyes and fingers pointing at them as
deprive of God’s love; they need the assurance of God’s love expressed by God’s
people. I am so blessed by the ministry of Bro. Vins Santiago, the powerful
truth he shared about the life of homosexuals from whence he struggled from the
past who now was delivered by the grace and love of God, live and helped people
to find the path to freedom from homosexuality. His ministry which aimed to
minister to people who were and are in that situation practices the acceptance
and care in order to point to them the way of salvation.
I
know I will receive criticisms on this, but I pray that all people will come to
know the liberating power of Jesus, not the judgment of the people, my views on
same sex marriage is still the same, my prayer is that I will be able to show
the love of God to you gays or lesbians, just like I found love in the power of
the cross of Jesus!
