A Supreme Equality

6/26/2015

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage today. And yet tonight, I feel the need to get on my knees and pray. I am sure you are thinking...great, another conservative Christian praying for all the gays in the world to repent. Sorry to disappoint you, but not this conservative Christian. I am praying God forgives our world for all the hatred emerging due to this decision.

I do not believe the Supreme Court's decision was based on the Bible (See 1 Corinthians 6:9-11). However, the Supreme Court doesn't actually have to base any of their rulings on the Bible. I do truly believe the Supreme Court based a decision on equality. And equality is very much threaded throughout the Bible.

In God's eyes we are all equal. Unfortunately, we are only equal because we are ALL sinners. There isn't a single one among us that is not. So whether or not I think being gay is a sin is irrelevant to the overall story. We all sin. I am so very thankful to be equal in God's eyes and to be covered in His Grace. Without it I would be lost in eternity.

Romans 2:11
For God does not show favoritism.

I am not only praying for the hate to dissipate but I am asking God to humble me. To help me realize how much my beliefs may hurt someone, if I decide not to act in love. I pray He helps me stand firm in my faith through a stance of love and not hate. I pray God helps me display His overwhelming, tremendous, unconditionally love equally to everyone that crosses my path. I pray not a single one of my gay friends EVER feels anything but love, respect and honor for the person they are from me. I pray that my friends (both gay and straight) never hold anything against me or treat me any different because they disagree with me or think I make a decision not aligned with their beliefs. I pray our differences never ever divide us. I absolutely believe in equality...we are equally blessed with His Sacrifice, His love and His forgiveness. No matter our list of sins.

Romans 3:23
For everyone has sinned; we all fall short of God's glorious standard.

I pray Christians around the world hold each other accountable for the hatred some of us are showing. For the wrong we are doing to others and for the superiority we are displaying based on one piece of instruction in the Bible, while simultaneously forgetting several other commandments in the Bible. You aren't allowed to pick one piece of the Bible to judge another person on...you have to apply it in it's wholeness. As I read statements praising gay pride and equally hating on it...I am quickly reminded that pride is actually a sin. It is very easy to go from feeling equal to feeling superior. And I ask God to humble my butt right back to where it belongs....kneeling before Him.

Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and haughtiness before a fall.

Today was actually a sad day for me. The sadness was not based on the Supreme Court's decision but the reaction to the decision by many of my brothers and sisters in Christ. However, I am reassured by the array of rainbows throughout our country. While the rainbow may symbolize gay pride to many...it is actually a reminder of the covenant between God and all living creatures. It reminds me that the storm will pass and that life will persevere.

Genesis 9: 14-15
When I send clouds over the earth, the rainbow will appear in the clouds, and I will remember my covenant with you and with all living creatures. Never again will the floodwaters destroy all life.

To rainbows, peace and love,

Ashley Lucille

2 Comments

Lyall Sempf link

4/12/2016 03:37:16 am

Hi. We shouldn't worry too much about what the Supreme Court says, its decisions, what it rules, nor worry about its opinions. The (man made) judges work with the statutes /ordinances of man (rules for a society). God is our Lawgiver (Isa 33:22 & James 4:12). I don't believe God will even hear the prayers of Christians regarding the Supreme Court's decision on gay union (it’s not Christian marriage). 1 Samuel 8:18 “And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king whom ye have chosen; and Jehovah will not answer you in that day.” God allows Christians to serve an earthly king (1 Samuel 8), but that’s in His permissive will. His perfect will is for He Himself to be our King, Lawgiver & Judge. God is a very jealous God, and wants us to Himself. If one belongs to a society, or a club or group, then he/she should obey the rules of that club. I Peter 2:13-14 merely confirms the rules (standard contract rules) of belonging to any society, club etc. It reads “Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, ……” but in God’s perfect will, we shouldn’t even belong to a society because then God is not our King. I left society a few years ago. I don’t vote, don’t earn dollars, don’t have a driver’s license etc.

4/12/2016 05:01:51 am

In case I don’t get back to this bog: Christian marriage is PARTLY founded on a sacred covenant between a man, a woman & God where God is the superior party of an EXCLUSIVE 3-party covenant. Christian marriage also is founded on a man and woman being sexually different, yet complementary to each other, and being as ‘one flesh’ which is a bit of a mystery to us earthlings. There is also a parallel to the covenant of Christ with His Church (us Christians).
When a man & woman say their marriage vows to each other and to and under God, the pastor then declares them man & wife. They are THEN married in God’s eyes. Unfortunately most pastors then lead the newly married couple to the ‘alter of Caesar’ where they sign the government’s paperwork (marriage certificate), thus creating a contract with the government. This express contract is what gives judges jurisdiction over the marriage in some aspects. This actually pollutes the sacred EXCLUSIVE covenant of Christian marriage, as the gov’t is involved in a contractual manner (creating a civil contract) (covenant is different from contract), plus the gov’t is a 4th. party interloper. Some say “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s” but Christian marriage belongs to God, entirely – Caesar should have nothing to do with God’s sacred covenant. Caesar never ‘created them male & female’, nor gave man & woman different attributes, can’t make them one flesh, and has no right to ‘confirm’ a Christian marriage. In ‘Australia’, the 1963 Marriage Act doesn’t even mention God, nor does it properly define what Christian marriage is. The Act is no more than a statute /ordinance of man; and is most repugnant to God (because it’s man made, and the text of the Act is repugnant to God).
A covenant: a) is an agreement made in trust. The parties love each other and put no limits on their own responsibility; b) is made open-endedly by two or more parties who come together in a bond of loyalty and trust to achieve together what none can achieve alone; c) is more like a marriage; d) belongs to families, communities, charities, which are arenas of co-operation; e) is about us - collective belonging;
f) more about identity; g) when breached, often results in the parties looking for ways to repair the breach.
A contract: a) is an agreement made more so in suspicion, and the parties do not necessarily trust each other, and so set 'limits' to their own responsibility; b) is made for a limited period, for a specific purpose, between two or more parties, each seeking their own benefit; c) is more like a deal; d) belongs to the market and to the state, to economics and politics, both of which are arenas of competition; e) is between separate people and/or entities; f) is about interests; g) when breached, often results in a party looking for compensation.

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