Disagreeing with God

 It's never a good thing when you, we, and I, disagree with God or what His Word says. If it says no, it really does mean no. If it says yes, well, there you go, it means yes. God is the ONE who cannot lie. He cannot lie, He doesn't lie, He will not lie, so we can rest on that. I suppose in 2023, we often say "We can bank on that".  The truth is, that we are the ones who need to polarize ourselves to Him, not the other way around. We tend to either forget this, or we just tend to overlook it, maybe even avoid it. We say (and I hear this all the time) "It's 2023, times have changed. People have changed."  OK, yeah, they're right on all three accounts. (1) it is 2023.  (2) Times have changed. (3) People have certainly changed.  Guess what? God has not changed. 

    What fools we are and what mockery we cause when we arbitrarily, on our own steam, decide or elect to sin knowing that what we're doing is absolutely not acceptable to God. I could pull out one particular sin that has been elevated, celebrated, and plastered all over the media, but I won't. I'll say that all sin, no matter how colorful or prideful it may be, is sin. Sin doesn't become acceptable to God or Jesus just because the calendar has progressed. I added Jesus' name because there are too many churches out there right now that, through the name of Christ Jesus, are claiming that homosexuality is acceptable to Jesus; that He died for all of us. RIGHT AGAIN...He did die for every last one of us, but the sin of homosexuality, or any immoral sexual sin (including premarital sex) is still NOT acceptable to God. 

    Just because most of us are guilty of a particular type of sin (also) it doesn't make it acceptable, and it doesn't make it OK. Sin is still sin. According to God, according to Jesus, according to the Holy Spirit, and according to the Word. We can make up all the excuses we want to, but we are faced with the true fact that we are still WRONG. I read today in Proverbs 13:20 that (20) "He who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will be destroyed."  It really can't get much clearer than that. If a man calls another man his bestie, but that bestie isn't within God's plan for friendship; he's not your bestie. He's an agent of the Deceiver. 

    This weekend I chanced across a photo uploaded on a social media account that I frequently check out in order to pray for the person who posts. He's more or less confused about his choices and lifestyle these days, but because he professes to be a born-again Christian, and hangs with certain people (many of them) I continue to ask God to show him the verses and the passages in the Word to give the man more direct understanding of what he's doing to himself, to his witness, to his fanbase (he's an artist) and to his relationship with God. You can't go about slapping someone in the face and expect them to be your best friend after that. God is not our best friend, He is GOD!  He is unchanging and immovable, and He does not compromise because we want to do something that we KNOW is wrong EVEN if the world accepts it. C'mon, this isn't rocket science - - and even if it were, God made that too!

    I'm about to write another short story, maybe 10-12 pages long, and it will deal with this particular type of misguided foolery being displayed for all to see, and for all to respond to. I'll call it "Pinball" because that is what this man's life has turned out to be. Three and a half years ago when God asked me to pray for the man, I didn't know just how deeply he was embedded in this world's confusion surrounding the issue. He was literally born into it. That's the problem. The one woman he thought he could trust turns out to be the biggest liar in his life. When you love your mother it's hard to see that she would be so cruel as to keep you in the dark not only about your birth father, but your life in general - - finding out when you're a teen just made things more difficult. The story I write will NOT be about his life. It will NOT be his experiences. It will be loosely based on some of the events he has faced, not all of them. No one would believe that mess!

    I'll say this; I'm not in love with this man. I love this man. There is a huge difference between those two statements. Through Christ, and through the God of our salvation (OUR SALVATION) I am faithful to my duties of praying for him. I am and will remain so because again, God doesn't change. Just because I want to throw the man out the window or in the bin doesn't mean I have that right. I do not have that right. I have an assignment, and I will do my best to please and honor God through it. I may be hated for it. I may be blamed. I may be called many unfavorable things by the man himself, but one thing is for certain...eternity is a VERY VERY long time, and I know he will be there too; without the sin....thank God, literally, thank God, all of our sins, every last dirty tiny one, has been forgiven. We just need to fix our alignment with God from time to time. He's waiting.

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