Badge of Honor

Recently, when jokes rooting for the death of Rush Limbaugh were told by an ungodly, openly lesbian comedian I wasn’t surprised. When the jokes received gleeful applause from a like minded crowd of people I also wasn’t surprised. The jokes glorified and entertained the idea of Rush dying due to kidney failure while another joke toyed with his death as a terrorist hijacker in the Sept. 11th World Trade Center attacks. However, when the jokes were given a thumb’s up approval by the President of the United States Barack Obama I was surprised yet reminded of a few things Mr. Obama stands for and believes.

Mr. Limbaugh is pro-life. Mr. Obama is pro-choice. This means that Mr. Obama supports a woman’s “right” to end the life of “their” child. However in actuality, the child isn’t even the woman’s child at all but a life created by God. The breath of the lives of both the child and mother are in God’s control. This may be the core “problem” for many pro-choicers. These days, it is quite unpopular to say God created anything, let alone a human life, so to believe life is a gift from God and created by and for Him in His image, is truly asking for trouble. That is, trouble from anyone who opposes God, true Christians, Christian living and the support of innocent life.

Gay marriage is also a divisive issue. However, it shouldn’t be a point of contention within the heart of a Christian just as it isn’t in the heart of non-Christians. Simply put, God opposes evil acts of immorality whether one is married or not. Satan rallies behind any person who commit such acts and/or who even think about doing them. Since he opposes God, he and his minions will attack anyone who would seek to expose his wicked schemes (Ephesians 6:11,12). He goes about seeking to destroy anyone standing up for God’s holy standards.

So-called “traditional” marriage between a man and women isn’t right because it is “traditional” or because it happens to be the current legal law of the land. It is only truly right because it is God’s standard for what marriage is. Gay-marriage is immorality that is has been legally approved by the law of the land. So if one can appear to discredit what God says is true whether it be through law or removing visible signs of God’s standard (ie. The Ten Commandments) this will have it‘s supporters who don‘t have a fear of God and oppose Him. We see this happening as immorality and opposition to God and the Bible becomes more acceptable around the country and the world.

God says Christians are to expose evil. (Ephesians 5:11) He also says Christians are not only to expose evil deeds but are not even to take part in crude joking or corrupting conversation (Ephesians 4:29, 5:4) and take part in what is darkness (Ephesians 5). While many non-Christians and God deniers go about their enjoyment of wallowing in the mud of evil practice and opposing God any chance they get, what are Christians doing? (Ephesians 5:15,16) I ask myself, am I staying on offense to expose them or do I go to my own muddy place only to join them? It does sadden me to see the President or anyone for that matter, go deeper into the mud pit of death and sin. But it saddens me more if I find myself or any fellow Christian there. If it saddens a Christian, what must God think?

Ultimately, we must each answer these soul searching questions. Who and what do you desire? Who do you live for? As a Christian it is a badge of honor to be dragged through the mud and be spit on by a sick sin loving world for living and serving a holy, perfect, righteous God. Who do you serve? God or Satan?