TRUST

As a prerequisite for understanding what I am about to tell you, I would encourage all of you to read Todd Morris’s column in the September 17th edition of The Pitt News entitled “My sexuality is not something I can choose or change”.
            Morris writes of his long term experiences dealing with several aspects of homosexuality.
            According to Morris, he was raised a Jehovah’s Witness, vigorously attending church and frequently going door to door explaining the religion. Thinking that the unveiling of his homosexuality could result in his excommunication from his church, friends or even his family, he tried not to think about it.
            Apparently along the way, he was tricked, like billions of others, into thinking that God hated, and in misinterpreting the Bible he inferred that God hated homosexuals. In admitting my minimal knowledge of Jehovah’s Witness’s beliefs, and in responding to what I gathered from Morris’s brief references I feel that God has once again been misrepresented. So rather than making broad general statement’s lacking meaning and relevance I am going to take this opportunity to clear up some eternally fatal misunderstandings.
             Simply, God loves you. Now let me explain it again, because I honestly know how irrelevant and inexistent God’s love for you seems. God loves you. I know what you are thinking. Stop it! God loves you. Stop and listen. God loves you. I know this is simple and I could very well be a third grader, but God loves you. Jesus Christ loves you. No, no, he loves you. God is hotter, Okay? He loves you. He wants to have a personal relationship with you. I don’t care who you are, Jesus loves you and there is nothing you can do about it.
            Like Todd, we are all being fooled. We are being deceived into thinking that God isn’t a very real and loving father, and that he is some foreign entity condemning our every slip up. Jesus freaking died for us.
            Are we saying that isn’t enough? Are we saying that the son of God sacrificing his life for us isn’t strong enough to wipe away our sins? Well, it is. God loves us.
            Morris states, “Please be assured this choice wasn’t mine to make.” God gives us the shoulders to bear those burdens. So whether it is cancer, AIDS, homosexuality, or depression, we are all called to face our fears and fight our own and necessary evils. God loves us. There is no scientific evidence suggesting homosexuality is genetic. None! And did you know that there are many Christians who were once homosexual, who prayed with all their hearts to change, and are now heterosexual? They were gay and they are now straight! Do you know what this means? This means that God loves us, everyone of us, and when we see through the devil’s deception and give our hearts to the Lord, he will save us! Do you know why? That’s right, because God loves us! He purposely sent his son to die for us, and there are too many billions of people who don’t know this. It is our responsibility to let people know that God loves them.
            Since the day Eve was deceived, the devil has continued to fool our race into thinking we are worthless.
            Morris also states, “I knew God hated homosexuals, it says so in the Bible . . . Based on how I was raised I knew how God felt about gays, I knew how he felt about me. He hated me.”
            God bless Todd Morris. God bless him. Jesus loves you Todd. He loves you. He doesn’t see you as a homosexual. He sees you as a man plagued with a problem. We all have a problem. We all have a very real problem: the Devil. Everyday he deceives us. Everyday our hearts cry. Everyday he tells us God hates us. And everyday we believe him. And everyday we believe him.
            The author would like to tell anyone out there who is questioning their sexuality to look inside and do what makes God happy. If you want to talk to someone, contact God.

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