By Rev. Joda Collins
Nineteen out of every 100 persons probably has a homosexual in their family. Christmas is a time for family gatherings. What do you do when your son or daughter wants to bring home their homosexual other half? You have two options. You can forbid it or permit it. If you forbid it the problem is solved, except for dealing with any reactions from your homosexual son or daughter. If you permit it, then at your Christmas gathering you have two options. You can be honest and let your disgust for the situation show or you can lie and pretend that everything is okay and that homosexuality is just as normal as your son loving a woman or your daughter in love with a man. If you chose to pretend that all is well, you can hang up your son's or daughter's sexual plaything's stocking with their name on it and fill it full of goodies like all the other stockings. You can laugh and giggle and ignore the elephant in the room. When your son or daughter's homo other half reaches over and gives your homo son or daughter a sexual look, gentle touch or sweet smile that we all reserve for our sexual partner. You can bite your lip and smile as if you thought that was cute. Or, you can voice your dislike or let your facial expression voice your dislike for the lovey-dovey action. If you want to you can self-convince that everything is okay and laugh and giggle through the Christmas gathering all the time pretending to give glory to God for the gift of his Son. You can pray in Jesus' name. Again, all the time ignoring the elephant in the room.
What is the elephant in the room? The elephant in the room is you. More specifically the elephant in the room is your sin.
Rather than rebuke the sin of homosexuality, you pretend like you embrace it. Rather that confront the sin, you tolerate it. Rather than use the Christmas gathering as an opportunity to express your godly view of homosexuality rather than have it flaunted in your home, you use the celebration of the birth of Jesus as an occasion to bury your godly conviction about the ungodliness of homosexuality. Rather than close your door to sin, you open your door to a celebration with the sin. Rather than love God more than your child, you show more love for your child than for God. The Holy Spirit is there and you spit in His face. Your child and your child's sexual toy leave the celebration rejoicing that you have bent the biblical rules for them. You spend your prayer time telling God why you could not stand on biblical principles believing that you are so special to God that he will make an exception for you. You forfeited your golden opportunity to stand for the Lord Jesus Christ as you showed your overwhelming friendship for the world's way of doing things. Shame on you.
You return to Church in the weeks and months ahead and sing "Oh, how I love Jesus" knowing in the pit of your soul that you failed the test of love, which is to pick up your cross, deny yourself and follow Jesus.
Ah, but you say, Jesus ate with sinners. That he did. However, he also told sinners they were sinners on their way to hell and tried to lead them to salvation. He did not say come as you are to eat with me or I with you and I will pretend that your sin in meaningless or acceptable. If your homosexual son or daughter wants to bring his or her homosexual toy to your home for Christmas, if you allow it, at least make this following a condition. "Yes, I will allow it, but you need to be here one-hour early so I can talk to your partner about my Bible-based convictions about homosexuality and tell him or her about Jesus." Chances are pretty good that your son or daughter or his or her sexual toy will coldly decline the invitation to your home. Even if they show up, you will not be the elephant in your own home. Also, warn the homosexual couple that you will not tolerate lovey-dovey between them during their stay in your home. Let them know you would find that nauseating and being made nauseous is not the purpose of your Christmas gathering in your home.
Here is what I would do if I had a child, grandchild or friend that was homo, had an invitation from me to visit for Christmas gathering and asked to bring his or her homo partner. I would say, "No, the entire evening for me as a Christian committed to honoring God in my home would be made too uncomfortable for me in my own home." If my son, daughter, grandchild or friend then decided I was unworthy of their consideration, respect, friendship or love, I would go on with my life without them in it. That is just me. However, if you welcome and ignore, when you feel the elephant in the room at your Christmas celebration, that is you. When you feel the sadness, that is the weeping of the Holy Spirit because you chose to not offend your child and his or her sex toy rather than not offend God. When you feel the coldness of your prayers to justify your lack of standing for Jesus in that time of test, that is the reaction of Jesus. We all react that way when someone wrongs us and then tries to justify it to us. Following Jesus is not always easy, without price or popular.
Do not let others take the merry out of your Merry Christmas, steal your commitment to Christ or make you the elephant in your own house.
Rev. Joda Collins
jodacollins@aol.com
I do not claim that anyone else agrees with me.
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