So many contradictory world-views are swirling around humanity these days, its no wonder there is mounting stress and confusion in our culture as to what truth really is. Most societies and cultures are abandoning Judeo-Christian values for secular concepts void of personal responsibility and accountability.
It’s easy to become confused. Mankind has replaced the order that God put in all creation with a great confusion that leads to no good end.
The scrambling of life’s order and priorities is not the only confusion that is perpetuated by our contemporary and secular way of life. There is profound and growing gender confusion. There is a check-box on the recent U.S. 2020 Census that allows a person to “not identify as male or female” or to decline entirely to declare one’s orientation, leaving only that the person being counted is an “it”, something not associated with God’s created identities for humankind.
Gender bias is a preference or prejudice toward one gender over the other. Bias can be conscious or unconscious, and may manifest in many ways, both subtle and obvious. One of the most obvious ways in recent years is the “third” public restroom for those who claim not “male” or female” but another for of identity. We didn’t even think of these issues when I was growing up, a teen and even a young married adult.
You May ask yourself by now if I really am that old fashioned, that I can’t understand that we don’t live in the 20th century anymore? Of course not‚ I do live in the contemporary world‚ but these growing and frightening patterns of disorder‚ brought by apparently simple things like fashion‚ do greatly influence our lives. If our “freedom to choose” now extends to deciding what orientation we will live with from childhood through adulthood, then I would suggest that the confusion of humanity is far more serious than a simple shrug off to one’s personal choice.
The number one victim of this confusion is the family. We see how the God given definition of family is changed today by the political agenda‚ how younger and younger girls drop off school because of a teenage pregnancy‚ how divorce becomes the norm and celibacy with a libertarian lifestyle is looked upon as a viable way of living. These are all consequences of this confusion.
God did not created the world to be this way‚ he did not sow seeds of disorder. He made a child different than an adult and a woman different than a man. Strip away the modern trappings of this world… fashion‚ culture‚ prejudice‚ political correctness, etc. and you will see the true face of the world, that it is still here‚ buried‚ just as it was created by God.
Now, I am going to be very old fashioned here and declare the present state of confusion of humanity to be caused by sin. Humanity’s desire to choose to go against the natural order of how God created humanity to live. Yes, that is exactly what sin is… making a choice contrary to the goodness God desires for his creation. The originator of sin, is God’s adversary Satan the Devil.
You see, its through sin that humanity has sacrificed the original purity God endowed mankind with in favor of doing their own thing, their own way. You might say, mankind has created a false identity‚ an identity that is hiding, masking the goodness of God that is in all of his creation. Do it long enough, and our world becomes a place of confusion and deception. The secular tendencies, and gender confusion of our contemporary choices are just the latest masking over the truth of God’s given nature, his purpose for humanity and the world, replacing it with the man-made, unholy hodgepodge of ungodly behaviors.
God’s intent for order is very clear in the book of Ecclesiastes “to every thing there is a season‚ and a time to every purpose under the heaven: “A time to be born‚ and a time to die; […] a time to kill and a time to heal‚ a time to tear down and a time to build‚ a time to weep and a time to laugh‚ a time to mourn and a time to dance.” (Ecc 5:1-5). He has created all things with a purpose in mind and when we ignore or change this purpose we miss the very goal of our existence which is to be a glory to God. We can rebel against this fact‚ we can try to mask it‚ but this will only bring pain in our lives because we act against ourselves‚ against who we really are.
All our problems arise when we fight against the faultless order of God and try to replace it with a man-made flawed proposition. We think that we can outsmart God‚ but in doing that we only trade perfection for limitation‚ eternity for a brief lifetime‚ communion for isolation‚ and love for indifference.
We don’t have to reinvent anything: God has already created everything perfect. We only have to shake off these worldly views and ideas, and accept his grace in the person of Jesus Christ, our savior and redeemer. We can then align our will with His will and rediscover our personal identity by paradoxically uniting ourselves with Him… “He that has my commandments‚ and keeps them‚ he it is that loves me: and he that loves me shall be loved of my Father‚ and I will love him‚ and will manifest myself to him.” (John 14:21)
