Your Personal Path

David informed Saul he would kill Goliath. Yet, when Saul saw David, pimpled, and Goliath, rippled, he did what any Iron Age king would do. “Saul gave David his own armor—bronze helmet and a coat of mail” (I Sam. 17:38 NLT)

However, David rejected the armor, selected the stones, lobotomized the giant, and taught us a powerful lesson: what fits others might not fit you. Indeed, what fits the king might not fit you. Just because someone gives you advice, a job, or a promotion, you don’t have to accept it.

Let your uniqueness define your path of life.

Receiving God's Love

One of the first verses of Scripture I learned as a young Christian (and probably the verse most believers can quote from memory) is John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

As I have grown in Christ, I understand that the entire Bible, every verse, is the revelation of God’s love for humankind. From Genesis to Revelation, it is the story of Christ’s unflagging desire to redeem and reconcile human beings to an eternal fellowship with Him.

How then did I allow the fact that I am a SGL man cause me to develop such a stubborn resistance to receiving and enjoying God’s love? Why are so many Same-Gender-Loving individuals caught in this same spiritual snarl that ties up our fellowship with God and dangerously entangles our whole viewpoint of the Christian life? We know that God is love, but our knowledge of His love runs only skin deep. We know much about sound doctrine; however, our soul is starved for the love of God.

There are some basic factors involved. Perhaps the most obvious is pride, the taproot of sin. It is a devilish snare that promotes the deceptive thinking that once God has rescued us from eternal ruin, we can make it on our own. It binds us in an exhausting, exacting lifestyle that rarely displays Christ’s character and seldom satisfies us. Pride repels the love of God. It breeds self-reliance, short-circuiting our need for love.

Yet beyond pride, I feel there is still a rather common malady that prevents us from even having a clue to what Christ meant when he said, “Now remain in my love” (John 5;19). Jesus used the Greek word agape. This word was seldom used by the Greeks and had little cultural weight, but Jesus and the writers of the New Testament injected it with supernatural significance, using it to express unconditional love of God for the believer.

Unconditional love means this—God love you just the way you are. Isn’t that something we all ache for, to be loved without conditions or stipulations? God loves you when you obey, and he loves you when you err. That doesn’t mean He tolerates sin—He died for it—or that He dilutes its consequences. However, it does mean that His love or you is amazingly steadfast and unchanging.

Perhaps it is because the concept is so alien to the SGL person that we know embarrassingly little about God’s love. However, that can change today. God loves you as much now as He ever will. God’s love is freely bestowed on the SGL individual by His choice. It may sound too good to be true, but it is God’s idea.

Receive it, accept it, and you will never be the same.

Who's Responsible?

I saw this video on a friend's blog and I just had to share it with my bloggers.


God want His Same-Gender-Loving children to be spiritually and physically healthy. Please be responsible.

Keep your eye on the healthy soul. Psalm 37:37a

Cease Striving

I was restyling all night with my thoughts trying to find the words to post on my blog. In frustration, I gave up and ended my night saying, “I will update my blog tomorrow or maybe next week.”

It was 12:14 am. I suddenly awakened from a restful sleep, sensing God had something to say to me. In a matter of seconds, Psalm 46 came to mind. I turned on the light and began to read. Although I am very familiar with this magnificent, comforting psalm, I read it deliberately and prayerfully.

The tenth verse arrested my soul: “Be still and know that I am God.” In the quiet of the night, I knew God was revealing something that I desperately needed to know. I prayed, asking God to open up the meaning of the verse so that I might receive His fullness and then I returned to bed.

The next morning I opened the Bible and read Psalm 46:10 from another translation. “Cease serving and know that I am God.”

As soon as I read these words, “cease striving,” I knew what God was saying to me. Though I know better, I have a tendency to strive on my own strength and energy. Let me tell you, that’s exhausting, frustrating, and ultimately not very productive in God’s scheme. As long as you think you have to perform a certain way to please God, you are in subtle conflict with Him.

I breathed a sigh of spiritual relief as I saw the futility of my attempts to carry out God’s commands with my resources and His amazing adequacy for every demand. I can “cease striving” to be holy and righteous, because “in Christ” I already am Holy and righteous. I don’t have to strain to gain God’s approval, because he already loves me unconditionally.

Do you see how this removes the struggle? Do you understand how this can help you to relax and rest in the all-sufficiency of God’s grace? Christ, who indwells you through the Holy-spirit is your peace, strength, comfort, wisdom, hope, joy and guide.

You have all this because you have Christ.

Two Choices

“What should I do with Jesus, the One called the Christ?” Perhaps you, are curious about this One called Jesus.

What do you do with a man who claims to be God, yet hates religion? What do you do with a man who calls Himself the Savior, yet condemns the systems? What do you do with a man who knows the place and time of His death, yet goes there anyway?...

You have two choices.

You can reject Him. That is an option. You can, as have many, decide that the idea of God’s becoming a carpenter is too bizarre—and walk away.

On the other hand, you can accept Him. You can journey with Him. You can listen for His voice amid the hundreds of voices and follow Him.

Today you have two choices; tomorrow you may not have any.