Among whom we also all behaved ourselves once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the comprehension, and were, in our nature, children of indignation, even as the rest.
Ephesians 2: 3, Concordant New Testament
Recently there has been an uproar over the state of Florida instituting the so called "Don't say gay" law. This legislation, far from what the left leaning media will tell you, discourages gender identity teaching through grade 3 as well as giving parents more information of what their children are being taught in school. I for one have no issue with this. What parent would not want to know what their child is being taught in school? However, I guess more than a few teacher unions find this idea repulsive. Go figure. Each time there is a controversy over some cultural issue I am tempted to ask one question...what would God say? Take the so called don't say gay law for instance. Who does God say a child is? Well, I would bet that He sees each and every child in the very same way that He sees me...as His loved creation {Genesis 1:27}. Each and every child takes their very identity from their creator...the Lord God. It is God who breathed into us the breath of life {Genesis 2:7}. I realize that over time many have forgotten where it is we came from, but that does not nullify it in any way. We were once dust of the ground whom God blessed with life...it's as simple as that. That's what God says. How about another so called hot button issue...marriage. Traditional marriage is yet another battlefield the left leaning cry babies have assaulted in the past decades. First it was the issue of divorce, then it became the issue of same sex marriages. Again I ask, what does God say? Well, the very word woman denotes just where women originated...from man. For it is God who caused a sleep to fall upon Adam in the garden where He extracted from his creation a rib bone which then He formed into Eve {Genesis 2:21-22}. I find Adams reaction to Eves presence very telling. 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman, because she was taken out of Man"{Genesis 2:23} This is what God says.
If anyone should be saying that "I am loving God," and should be hating his brother, he is a liar, for he who is not loving his brother whom he has seen can not be loving God whom he has not seen.
1 John 4: 20, Concordant New Testament
So, I have presented two examples of how mankind has taken something which God has meant for good and turned it upside down. I'm not at all surprised. Man and moral behaviors go together like oil and water. I'm not saying that there are no morally sound people in the world, it's just that there are far more immoral people. Of course, God has something to say about this as well. It is God who has given unbelievers over to wrong behaviors {Romans 1:28}. As usual, nothing falls away from the Lords attention. So what are we to do with all of these immoral people all around us? Are we the Christian soldiers who are to fight for our Lord to bring the heathen hordes to justice? Well, what does God say? The answer may surprise you. We have been called...to love {1 John 4:11}. That's right, if God so loved us, then we are to love one another. We see this in the very nature of God, which is love {1 John 4:8}. Despite the fact that many behave in a way that goes against the desires of the Lord, we are called to show the love of God unto them. This is what God says. Many believers grew up in the church where looking down upon those who behave badly may have been encouraged. This IS NOT what the Lord desires from His children. We are to display for all the world to see Christ Jesus who is in us {Galatians 2:20}. We are to love those around us as God loves all of His creation. This is what God says.
~Scott~
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