Susuto

My point in the previous post is that the Christians were not condemning the homosexuals. They were praying for them. I do not know specifically what they were praying for, but as a Christian, I know what I would be praying for, and it has nothing to do with condemnation, and everything to do with salvation, redemption, and turning away from sin - the same things I pray for myself, my own family, my friends and other loved ones.

I have it within me to lust for many women. In that regard I sin regularly, and need forgiveness. I do not allow myself to cross lines of adultery that would ruin my marriage, but in my heart, I am the adulterer that Jesus admonishes in Matthew 5:28 when he says, “28 But I say to you that whoever looks at a woman to lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

The point is, I do not walk proudly or haughtily into this sin. I pray daily that God would give me the strength of will to control my wandering eye, and to give my sexual thoughts completely to my marriage. My repentance lives in my heart, but not yet in my mind, and I yearn for it to live in my mind, so that I can truly live up to Jesus’ admonishment to “go and sin no more”.

My sin is no better than the homosexual’s. I need and welcome prayer. It has nothing to do with whether I want it or not. But one thing I do not attempt to do is justify my sin so that I can feel OK with it.

Many homosexuals see the mere idea that they need to be prayed for as a religious condemnation of the immorality of their behavior. I understand that, and get where it’s coming from. But that doesn’t make it so.

If a Christian approaches the situation with the heart of Christ - that is, a lack of condemnation, and a prayer offered in love that the homosexual would “go, and sin no more”, then judgment of the sin is left to God, the reckoning, to the sinner.