Feb
24
Wanting It Doesn’t Make It So
Filed Under Devotional
My mind was in several places the other night. As I wandered around from task to task, I stopped now and again to watch the Academy Awards ceremony. I confess that I like movies. I like good movies, although my tastes are not easily put into a box. The predictable characters showed up last night. The awards were presented around an atmosphere of stories that I thought were uplifting and some, very predictable. The gay community was in the limelight with the attendees firmly behind those that included in their acceptance speeches the promise that the United States will soon be mandated to accept their lifestyle by the will of the government. One winner assured all gay people that God loves them and they are special. By virtue of winning an award, given to them by like-minded people, they seem to think they can change the unnatural to the natural.
They celebrate their creativity as if what their industry does is the pinnacle of the concept. Yet, with all the splash, all the glitter, and even one presenter that was a tad bitter over not being nominated for his documentary denouncing God, not one of them can match the slightest or the tiniest creation of God. Pictures, words, and feelings stand absolutely nowhere in the face of the truth. To say that God loves gay people and to argue that, because God loves, He condones the lifestyle is simply the skin of reasoning stuffed with deception.
I do believe that someone can be so conflicted that they can accept Jesus as their personal Savior and, then, deny in their minds anything in Scripture that contradicts their preferred lifestyle. Christians do it all the time. Just because we can delude ourselves and be clever enough to delude others does not change the absolute sovereignty of God. God loves all of mankind and has predestined each person to be like Christ, but there is a path, a road, a truth that cannot be denied and those that try to do so will pay a heavy price. When we choose to walk a fine line, we do so at the great peril of being separated from God for eternity.
“See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ.” Colossians 2:8
There is no red carpet in hell. And, Christian, it is a poor trade to exchange eternal life for a desire of fame.
Allen