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Becket Cook
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December 10 - December 13, 2020
The overwhelming wonder of God’s infinite love is this: While I was broken and a failure, God came to rescue me. He came to love me, to redeem me, and to heal me from sin. Where I failed, Christ succeeded on my behalf. Where I distrusted, Christ was faithful. Where I proudly resisted, he humbly surrendered. Through his obedience, he bridged the chasm between my darkness and his light. On the cross, God’s Son took my place and became a sacrifice for all my failures. In his resurrection, he triumphed over all my destruction. And he now stands as my victorious Redeemer, offering me—and all who
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To say that every other relationship paled in comparison with my new relationship with Christ would be a massive understatement. How could I hold on to anything that didn’t bring me closer to Him? My relationship with Christ was the real deal. I knew in my bones that it was what I had been longing for my whole life. It was what I was made for!
I know what it’s like to struggle with same-sex attraction. I know what it’s like to come out to Christian parents. And I know what it’s like to feel marginalized by Christians while within the LGBT community. But I also know what it’s like to have victory in Christ.
Have I left behind a certain type of relationships? Absolutely. But have I cut myself off from meaningful relationships? Not even close! Jesus promises that every relationship I release for his sake will be given back to me a hundredfold in the church (Mark 10:29–30). The church can be a messy place, but I have been adopted into a family, and I would be a fool to reject that to cling to something I used to long for.
And just as God did not create me gay, he also, for example, did not create heterosexuals with the desire to objectify women as sexual objects for selfish pleasure. We see this exemplified throughout society with rampant addiction to pornography. Neither is right simply because it exists. It is a gross misunderstanding to believe that anything that feels natural is righteous.
