Love Without Surrender

                             Photo By Kara Sasiela

By KARA SASIELA

I love rainbows. God created rainbows to represent His promise to us that He will never send another great flood that wipes out humanity.

Now the world is distorting this image for gay rights.

The reason God sent the flood in the first place was because humanity had strayed so much from God’s law and the corruption was so great that God sent the flood to start a clean slate with a righteous family.

Reference Genesis 6:11-14.

¹¹ Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. ¹² God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. ¹³ So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. ¹⁴ So make yourself an ark of cypress^[a] wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. 

And Genesis 9:13-17.

¹³ I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴ Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, ¹⁵ I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. ¹⁶ Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth.”

¹⁷ So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth.”

Genesis 9:13-17 shows the creation of the first rainbow and, yes, it represents love. However, God is showing his love for humanity by never wiping us from the face of the earth again, no matter how far from Him we wander.

By legalizing gay marriage we are well on our way from abandoning God in our nation.

To non-believers, this probably isn’t a big deal, but to Christians this breaks our hearts.

Our nation was founded on protestant beliefs, but as the years pass, we slowly progress to becoming a Godless nation, and a Godless nation is one of chaos, sin, and self-destruction.

As Christians, we know what is right and wrong according to our Lord and Savior, which is why we won’t surrender our beliefs and principles to those fighting against us.

God calls us to obey man’s law as His own, except for when it conflicts with His law.

Reference Romans 13:1-7.

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists the authorities resists what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment. For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. Therefore one must be in subjection, not only to avoid God's wrath but also for the sake of conscience. ...

And Acts 5:29.

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

So, like those fighting for gay rights, we don’t beg acceptance, but tolerance of our beliefs. Don’t call us haters or homophobic just because we don’t agree with you.

We love the people who are homosexual, but we can never accept and support their belief because according to God, homosexuality is a sin.

Reference 1 Timothy 1:10-11.

The sexually immoral, men who practice homosexuality, enslavers, liars, perjurers, and whatever else is contrary to sound doctrine, in accordance with the gospel of the glory of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted.

I’m not saying that homosexuals are the only sinners. I am a sinner. The difference though, is that I have been saved by God’s love and mercy so will spend an eternity with my Father in Heaven, but those living in sexual immorality will spend an eternity in Hell.

As Christians we are called to share God’s love with everyone and by knowing God personally, we want to share Him with others.

This is why standing up for what we believe in is so important to us. Because we love homosexuals, but not homosexuality, we don’t want them to spend eternity in Hell.

We want to spread the message that it is a sin, but they can still repent and be saved by God’s grace.

This does not mean that you won’t sin or that you won’t be tempted, but that you begin a relationship with the one who created you and He will forgive you of these sins, but if you don’t believe in Him, or that what you are doing is wrong, you can’t be forgiven.

Reference Romans 6:23.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

God loves everyone, but we live in a corrupt world full of sin and those who don’t accept God into their hearts will be judged in end times.

This is why our mission is so important. This is why we call out to you in love and hope that you will listen to us openly even if you still don’t agree with our belief.

I know there are Christians who do come at homosexuals with hate and for that I apologize, it is not what we are called to do.

Please treat Christians in the same respect that I am trying to treat you with. Though, if you choose to hate, we are prepared. For God warns us that by following Him, we will be persecuted and mocked, but sharing God’s Word is just that important.

I pray in hope for the people of the world to come to know Christ as their Lord and Savior so I may call them brothers and sisters and see them in Heaven.