The following post is from March of 2013.
Tough Love
Tough Love
One of our United States Senators, who previously had been a defender
of marriage being between one man and one woman, had recently
and publicly changed his mind. The reason given was that his son
informed him that he was gay. Most families in America have at least one
family member in amongst aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews and cousins who
proclaims themselves to be gay. The response of many in these families
is what they consider 'compassion' emanating from 'love' that leads to a
change of opinion on the issue of gay marriage. Going back to that
United States Senator, what should have happened was this....the Senator
should have been so angry at a culture whose tentacles reached within
his own immediate family to take a son away from God that he doubled his
efforts in defense of marriage being between one man and one woman
and became even more vigilant in anything else that came between God and
the people, America, that He had blessed since their beginnings for His own
reasons and to His own glory. This was not love that the Senator displayed towards his son but disdain for God. It wasn't compassion being expressed, it was arrogance.
God is longsufferring towards each and every one of us but it is not to
be presumed upon and He will not be mocked. The Supreme Court can issue
a decision either way or in between on the gay marriage issues. God is
not waiting with baited breath for our answer rather it should be us
waiting to see His answers to our hesitation.
