The lesson to me in all of this is the importance--the life and death importance--of seeing the world not through my eyes but through God's. God has given us the Bible which allows us, like a pair of glasses that somehow illumines blind eyes, to see the world as He sees it. Through the Bible I find that I am not good but am instead utterly depraved. Incredibly and humiliatingly, I find that I have no ability to properly see and understand reality without Him. I find my desperate dependence upon Him to comprehend what may seem so plain and so obvious. I find that I need Him to interpret reality for me because, without Him, I'll get it wrong every time. I need God to teach me to see myself.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Worldviews and Sexual Choices
Tim Challies with a good reflection on Ray Boltz's recent news that he is embracing homosexuality as a lifestyle choice. He writes:
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That's amazing. There is an article in People magazine this week about a new christian singing duo...a gay couple...who were talking about what it's like to be a Christian and gay. They're getting married. I think that it's not up to us to force our morality on people, but when professing Christians cling to their sin like a banner of who they are, I think that's what the bible warns agains...a lifestyle of sin.
That reminds me of a classic term used for sin: incurvatus in se (literally, turned in on oneself). The way it was explained to me, God's love cast us out from Himself in the act of creation in such a way that we would come back to him in a circle, yet that we had the choice. Those who entangled themselves in sin curved in on themselves in little eddies from which escape took both an bold act of resistance of the sinful well and a divine act of grace.
In my own struggles with homosexuality, that has precisely been the common thread. Sin's kind of hard to get caught up in when God's got you busy helping other people.
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