Dropping Stones

It was a typical morning for me as I scrambled to get my hair combed as the clock kept ticking. As is always my routine, I listen to the radio every morning as I get ready. It’s pretty much the only consistent time I hear of what’s going on in the world around me. They were playing some incredible worship music that was just pointing me back to Jesus in all things and I found myself feeling ready for the day. They then had the normal news brief interruption and I was appalled at what I heard this morning. President Obama gave a speech this past weekend to those fighting for gay rights etc. Whilst I usually do not mention anything political, this one just burned too deeply on my heart to let go. The statement made was this:
“You will see a time in which we as a nation finally recognize relationships between two men or two women as just as real and admirable as relationships between a man and a woman.”

-President Barack Obama

(Read more at:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/11/obamas-speech-text-transc_n_316844.html)
I just couldn’t believe it. I mean here is a guy who just received the Nobel Peace Prize the day before, largely in part due to his urgency in trying to eliminate nuclear weapons. I think that is an effort to be commended and I am thankful for a President that won’t sit back and let things go by. But what about this nonsense of gay marriages? Are they not in and of themselves nuclear-like in that they destroy families? Is it not so tragic that so many people find their identities in other things than in God? I found myself in a rush of emotions and questions and ready to knock someone’s block off this morning as I heard this. I was thinking to myself: “Since when it is admirable to go against anything that God opposes? After all, this nation was founded under God.” Not only that, but God created marriage as pure and holy, one man and one woman. I was forming my theological argument in my mind and then things began to change in those brief moments as I slipped on my tennis shoes.
I began to feel the nudging of the Lord and the conviction of the Holy Spirit. I was quickly reminded of every time that I choose to sin, I am opposing the Lord. My filthy sin that appears to be so lusterous and alluring to me is seemingly more “admirable” to me than following and obeying God. My heart began to ache at the intensity of the rawness that my heart was feeling as I began to feel exposed with my own filth before God Almighty.
I was reminded of the pure holiness of God and His command to His people to be holy. I was reminded of my own shortcoming. I thought about my own list of admirables in life and I’m not so sure that obeying God fills my #1 slot right now. As I look at our nation with the mass slaughtering of babies daily and the fight for “gay rights”, I am urged all the more into the presence of God. I was reminded of a verse I read recently: “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” Hebrews 10:31

May God have mercy on this nation, a nation that has turned its back on Him. May the blood of Jesus no longer be foolishly wasted on the muck and mire of our lives. May the mighty warriors of God rise up and begin to seek the face of God on behalf of this nation. “For nothing is impossible with God.” Luke 1:37 Will you pray like you believe this to be true? Where are the warriors of God’s army at? Wake up oh sleeping church!

“But my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.” Hebrews 10:38
We may still disagree and perhaps rightfully so, but who am I to cast the first stone?

Dropping my stone…Tara