Statement:
“Don’t you know that being gay is a sin and in order for you to be saved you must renounce such a life-style? ” … from J.M.
Response:
First and foremost, “… If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first throw a stone ...” -John 8:7 (NIV)
The argument of whether or not being gay is a sin has been raging for years that literally I’ve become numb to the rage. Therefore, J.M. your words are like sounding brass to my ears and here’s why.
Throughout my youth I knew that, but didn’t understand as to why, I had an attraction towards the same sex. Then throughout my young adult years I tried unsuccessfully to change my life-style, begging God to remove these feelings from me. Eventually, the emotional struggle over this very issue dragged me to the point of attempting suicide because it was pounded into my understanding that I was an abomination to God. My thought was, if God doesn’t love me then I certainly wasn’t worth anything, therefore why continue life that was literally tearing me apart and filled with no hope. Then one day I had my Jacobs ladder and the experience totally changed my life, and here’s how.
“… Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ’O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength’ The second is this: ’Love your neighbor as yourself’ There is no commandment greater than these” - Mark 12: 30 (NIV)
God knows us from before we were ever born. He knew long before I ever came along as to what cross I would have to carry in life. He knew all the pain, suffering, the intolerence I would have to endure. He know and still allowed me to be brought into this world just as he foresaw. I was created in the image of God … if this alone doesn’t speak volumes of God than nothing ever will.
When it’s all done and said, God looks on the heart. He commands us to love ourselves above everyone else, cause if we can’t love ourselves for who we are then we are intolerable of others. Therefore, in all that I am and in all that I’m not, I strive daily to LOVE God with all my heart, soul, mind and strength because this is what He commands of me. In the eyes of God, me being “gay” isn’t the issue … the issue is how I love Him and love you.
As for my sexual orientation, I have placed it in the hands of God. I have done everything I can possibly do to change it ... guess "God must be busy" on this one! Therefore, the only option left is for me is to love myself and leave this entire issue in God’s hands. For me, it’s more important as to how I live my life rather than how I could have lived my life, cause if I look back on how I could have, I would have been dead. Instead, today, I’m alive and daily thank God above for all that He has made me to be … in His image.
Oh, and one last thought. In all honesty, I don't conisder myself as being "gay." I'm just an wonderful and sometimes a pain in the @ss individual who puts my pants on one leg at a time, well, maybe both at one time. Nonetheless, I'm just me and that's all that really matters! So, J.M., if you are without sin, please!, go ahead and cast the first stone! Just don't hit this pretty face okay!?!
“Don’t you know that being gay is a sin and in order for you to be saved you must renounce such a life-style? ” … from J.M.
Response:
First and foremost, “… If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first throw a stone ...” -John 8:7 (NIV)
The argument of whether or not being gay is a sin has been raging for years that literally I’ve become numb to the rage. Therefore, J.M. your words are like sounding brass to my ears and here’s why.
Throughout my youth I knew that, but didn’t understand as to why, I had an attraction towards the same sex. Then throughout my young adult years I tried unsuccessfully to change my life-style, begging God to remove these feelings from me. Eventually, the emotional struggle over this very issue dragged me to the point of attempting suicide because it was pounded into my understanding that I was an abomination to God. My thought was, if God doesn’t love me then I certainly wasn’t worth anything, therefore why continue life that was literally tearing me apart and filled with no hope. Then one day I had my Jacobs ladder and the experience totally changed my life, and here’s how.
“… Of all the commandments, which is the most important?” “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ’O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength’ The second is this: ’Love your neighbor as yourself’ There is no commandment greater than these” - Mark 12: 30 (NIV)
God knows us from before we were ever born. He knew long before I ever came along as to what cross I would have to carry in life. He knew all the pain, suffering, the intolerence I would have to endure. He know and still allowed me to be brought into this world just as he foresaw. I was created in the image of God … if this alone doesn’t speak volumes of God than nothing ever will.
When it’s all done and said, God looks on the heart. He commands us to love ourselves above everyone else, cause if we can’t love ourselves for who we are then we are intolerable of others. Therefore, in all that I am and in all that I’m not, I strive daily to LOVE God with all my heart, soul, mind and strength because this is what He commands of me. In the eyes of God, me being “gay” isn’t the issue … the issue is how I love Him and love you.
As for my sexual orientation, I have placed it in the hands of God. I have done everything I can possibly do to change it ... guess "God must be busy" on this one! Therefore, the only option left is for me is to love myself and leave this entire issue in God’s hands. For me, it’s more important as to how I live my life rather than how I could have lived my life, cause if I look back on how I could have, I would have been dead. Instead, today, I’m alive and daily thank God above for all that He has made me to be … in His image.
Oh, and one last thought. In all honesty, I don't conisder myself as being "gay." I'm just an wonderful and sometimes a pain in the @ss individual who puts my pants on one leg at a time, well, maybe both at one time. Nonetheless, I'm just me and that's all that really matters! So, J.M., if you are without sin, please!, go ahead and cast the first stone! Just don't hit this pretty face okay!?!
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