The Amazing Love of God

A subject that is very near to my heart is the love that God has for us as his children. Most people understand the fact that God loves us, but they tend to forget the whole aspect of "God the Father". They understand that God loves them, but they don't understand how it relates to the love of a father. As someone who grew up without a father I am the last person who should be able to understand this subject, and yet God has given me some insight into the matter bu giving me friends who have good relationships with their fathers. I have seen the love that a father has for his children, and so I have seen the love that God has for all of us. He calls us to love people as he loves them, and yet we often forget that. There is a common theory going around that showing someone love means accepting them despite their mistakes, but the problem with a theory like that is the outcome of such a kind of love. A father will tell his child not to touch the hot stove, he knows that the child will get burned if he does. That is the love that God has for us. He doesn't let us touch the hot stove and learn from our mistakes unless there is no other way to teach us. If we love people despite their shortcomings we should try to help them by preventing them from making mistakes. That means that if we believe that the bible says that something is wrong (i.e. abortion or gay marriage) we should do our best to warn people about the consequences for such actions. For those of us who believe it should be enough that God has said something for us to believe it, but I understand that those who do not will need reasons for why we believe what we do, which is why Christians have to have more knowledge about their faith and why God says something is wrong. If we cannot defend our faith we cannot speak about it, or we will be made to look like fools. With the issues of Gay marriage and abortion the bible states clearly that they are both sins, though does not say exactly why in the context that it lists them as sinful. God has said that murder is wrong, and so we look at abortion and have the option of saying that it is wrong or right. The matter becomes whether or not the baby has any human rights before it is born. Disregarding the scientific facts that make it clear that there is a heartbeat and brain activity long before any cutoffs for abortion, it becomes a matter that each individual must make for themself, whether by being informed or not. The bible states that whoever strikes a pregnant woman and causes the child to die while still in the womb shall be put to death. The idea is that a life will be payed for a life, and so we know where God stands on the issue. An unborn fetus has life, and to abort it is murder in God's eyes, and so is also murder in the eyes of his followers.

The issue of Gay Marriage is also heavily disputed between Christians and non-Christians, though there is crossover on both sides. Leviticus 20:13 says, "If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads ." It lists homosexuality as a detestable act, and is therefore something that the Lord's followers should stand against. People have made the argument that the Old Testament law is invalidated by Jesus' sacrifice, but it does not say that anywhere in the New Testament. It does say that the things that were unclean are no longer unclean, allowing people to eat and wear what they wanted, but it made no such statement that the laws as to what is right and wrong according to the Lord would change. The new covenant does not prevent anything from being sin, it frees us from the religious traditions that were practiced for centuries for the forgiveness of sins by providing us with a new way to be forgiven, and eliminating the old.

Some Christians do not agree with everything that God says, but we just need to humble ourselves and admit that God knows better than we do, after all, he did make us. I'm not saying that it's wasy, it was a hard decision for me to make, but it's worth it. One of the hardest things for me to accept was that my will is smaller than God's, and what made it so hard to accept is that my twin brother is homosexual. We have never been very close, but I knew that admitting that God was right would mean admitting that my brother was living a lifestyle that is not pleasing to him. It was very difficult for me to choose anything over my family, but I know that it will be worth it.

First Post!

So this is my first post on my new blog, and I'm pretty excited about that. I guess that most people keep up with others by reading their blogs, so I figured that I should jump on the bandwagon. Hopefully the things that I put up will inspire thought in the individuals who read it, and I hope that you will read what I write carefully and prayerfully.