Someone recently posted this on Facebook:
“When you die, God isn’t going to ask you about someone else. He won’t ask you about the two men down the street who got married. He won’t ask you about the girl who had an abortion. He won’t ask you about the atheist that lives on the corner. He won’t ask you about the woman who feels more comfortable as a man.
He WILL ask you how you loved those people as he called you to do.
And some of you didn’t.”
Here is my reply to this charge:
Yes, some of us didn’t. In fact, all of us have not loved like we could have or should have. It is likely that even Mother Teresa missed some opportunity to love as God wished. Paul told us, “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude; it is not self-seeking. It is not easily angered; it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” Love does not mean following someone else’s god. Does Planned Parenthood love women? Is the only solution to an unwanted pregnancy an abortion? The prolife centers generally spend time with the troubled women and help them financially, socially, physically, and spiritually. My first wife volunteered at one. Does Planned Parenthood do that? Perhaps I am not well informed, but I have not heard of them doing that. What I have heard is that they have only one solution and that needs to be done within twenty minutes while the patient is heavily sedated. If she expresses doubts, she is told, “Look, you are here, and you have the money; let’s get it over with.” So I ask you, which of these two is showing real love? Loving those who worship the LGBTQ god does not mean giving obeisance to their god and declaring that all they stand for is right. We can love LGBTQ people by being patient, kind, humble, and helpful without declaring what they stand for is truth.
Who determines mankind’s “rights”? Those who serve all these other gods are making their own decisions about what is right and wrong. If we can each make our own choice, how can your definition of rights claim that my definition is wrong? As the Declaration of Independence says, “Our Creator has endowed us with certain unalienable rights”. The Creator of the universe and all there is in it has to be the sole source of all our rights. If we are ignoring Him and making our own rules, there is no truth, only opinion; and no opinion can claim to be the right one.
In terms of the final judgment, we all stand guilty of not having loved as God would have had us love. One can’t point his finger at someone else saying that person is guilty. Three other fingers are pointing back at the person pointing! In terms of the final judgment we are all lost, every one. But God is both righteous and loving. The righteous side finds us all guilty and assigned to the fires of hell. The loving side takes upon Himself in the righteous person of Jesus all our guilt so we are freed of that burden and no longer found guilty. Some of the eyewitnesses of heaven saw God’s extensive archives that record every single thing everyone has done or thought. But they have also seen that when someone accepts Jesus’ gift, his or her record is wiped clean of all sins. God can’t find them any more.
So instead of finding fault with other people’s love, I deeply encourage those who do to recognize the seriousness of your own lack and confess to God and allow Jesus to cleanse you of all guilt. I must daily confess the times I have failed to love as God wished, even though He has already forgiven me. Do this while you still have the freedom to choose.
P.S. For more on what eyewitnesses to heaven (and hell) said, read Heaven Is Beyond Imagination.