OUR MISPLACED LOVES

 

 

God often works passively instead of proactively and miraculously allowing us to reap the consequences of the evil we have sown:

 

·       Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord, would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof, therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way, and have their fill of their own devices. For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them. (Proverbs 1:29-32)

 

For example, at least a year prior to his becoming President, Joe Biden proclaimed:

 

·       Let's be clear: Transgender equality is the civil rights issue of our time. There is no room for compromise.

 

Wouldn’t it then mean that pedophilia and incest are also “human rights?” If not, what makes anything a human right? And who confers this right? The State? If the State can grant us human rights, there is nothing that prevents the State from retracting them.

 

Besides, if one State claims that transgenderism is a human right, and other nations claim that it isn’t, how can this difference be settled? It cannot without a higher Authority who can decisively settle the matter! With God left out of the picture, the concept of human rights is morally relative, a matter of taste and culture, and therefore it is unable to pass judgment on what is objectively right.

 

Whatever opposes reality will be washed away as a sand castle in the waves. Transgenderism doesn’t accord with biological and psychological realities. Consequently, it will be washed away. A recent study from Scotland revealed that 96% of the transgendered still practice some form of self-harm. We destroy ourselves with our choices.

 

Jesus had warned against the love of the evil of darkness. Our self-condemnation results from embracing this love:

 

·       “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. And this is the judgment [or condemnation]: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed.” (John 3:17-20)

 

From these verses, it seems that God need not actively condemn the haters of His Light, since we condemn ourselves through what we love and hate. We stand self-condemned according to the choices we make resulting from our refusal to come to God to be forgiven and saved. From this perspective, God merely rubber-stamps the decisions we have already made for ourselves, whether for the Light or the darkness of deceit and denial.

 

But God’s mercy is available even to the worst of sinners. Ahab was perhaps the worst king that Israel had had. He and his wife had turned Israel away from their God to the worship of Baal.

 

Therefore, God sent His Prophet Elijah to warn Ahab of the consequences:

 

·       And when Ahab heard those words, he tore his clothes and put sackcloth on his flesh and fasted and lay in sackcloth and went about dejectedly. And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying, “Have you seen how Ahab has humbled himself before me? Because he has humbled himself before me, I will not bring the disaster in his days; but in his son’s days I will bring the disaster upon his house.” (1 Kings 21:27-29)

 

This means that there is still hope for any who confess with the intention of turning from their sins (1 John 1:9).