Could well be a sign of mental illness once known as gender disphoria. sp? Which is in todays political correct world nearly a swear word. Mental illness and moral abandonment is what our society must gain control of if this is to be corrected. The further our nation moves from being a God centered culture, the farther down the slope to abyss we slide. Like it or not, some of you, you must admit that church culture and the morals that it instills is a main cog in a healthy, free, and loving nation. At least that is my perspective.
We've been sold a lie so long and from so many angles, that it is now a deep thread in our nation's cultural fabric.
That lie.... "I don't care what people do."
Really?
I come on your trapping ground and steal you traps.... you won't care, right?
I come over to your fur shed and steal your hides.... you won't care, right?
I nearly run over your kiddo in a store parking lot cause I'm not paying attention and you won't care right?
Heck yes we care on these and 1 million more scenarios.
BUT, evil wants us to back away from any immoral behavior and say to go along to get along, or to look as if "we" are not judgmental..... "I don't care what people do as long as they do it behind closed doors."
That allows us to be immoral and not be judged by a society or any of its people.
That allows us to tell others to stand down and take it when we are ourselves want to engage in sinful behavior.
We are deeply entrenched in all this in our 21st century progressive America.
We're....progressing. But to what?
Towards more and more immorality.... built upon the this big-ol lie tossed around by our post-christian culture.
But, we were always meant and created by God as people to be moral vice-regents with God upon this earth that He alone....not any human..... created.
So please extend some grace to those of us who the unrepentant mock and sneer at and tell to stand down as we attempt to say, ""Hey, it SURE DOES matter what a group of people do because we are a relational being and all of us are in the mix whether we want to be or not." A culture is built upon the people in it. And every anthropologist will tell you that the study of humans includes.... "humans." Together. As a group.
Evil knows this. Evil has always tried to separate into chaos what God created as orderly.
When I hear someone say the Bible says don't judge, I know that person doesn't have a deep clue about the narrative of God's Word.
All of us are supposed to help one another live a more joyful, hopeful life as evil attempts any way it can to steal and thwart the joy and hope God created in us.
Just this am, I'm reading in CNBC the major news story that today's young people, 5-15 have lost their hope for tomorrow and how this is devastating them mentally.Um.... duh.
Does anyone not know that immorality is death to joy and hope? That immorality is a short lived high but a long term decay to our inner soul?
Don't fret the article says as it outlines what researchers have come up with..... a wonderful 12 step program for parents to help their kids regain lost hope...
the major component of mental health the article says....
which equips people to overcome adversity.
How about we take kids back to a Biblically sound Church setting where the real Truth is found and which offers True hope!
But we have decided as a post-Christian American culture to not do that and to walk another path.
And so we read about how well the new boss, same as the old boss is going every day in our news.
Not well in many cases.
So, we pray this will change soon.
For God's glory, not ours.
Blessings!
Mark