Does God care about your sexuality?
| Part 1: Introduction |
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| Part 2: Brian’s Childhood |
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| Part 3: Life as a youth struggling with his sexuality |
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| Part 4: What brought him back |
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| Part 5: Starting over |
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| Part 6: Closing thoughts |
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Very touching and real. (although having trying accessing part 4. keeps saying error opening file).
a reminder that what we think is best for ourselves isn’t always so and that when we insist on our own ways, we have to learn through the struggles to trust God.
Hi Debby! Thanks for alerting us, have solved the issue! It should be accessible now!
no matter what u are going through God can set u free
just put ur trust in him.
Jesus really transformed lives. Praise be to Him, our helper and shield. For ever and ever. Let’s keep on thanking Him for he paid every sin.
Very cool. Very cool…
Indeed, to be broken and be built up again anew. =)
Indeed its not easy to walk out and leave, but Brian was strong enough to let God in and start anew again. God is Great. Bless you Brian.
thats true
It is an amazing testimony rather an inspiration.When some one shares their own experience it become the strongest tool to inflict a healthy thinking in each reader.love to hear more of this kind and more worship songs too
Hi Brian, I think it’s wonderful that you found your way home to God, our Creator and Creator of all. I am inspired that you have found your true identity, which is that of a beloved child of God. I think you would agree with me that God never makes mistakes because he is ever loving and ever so powerful. What He asks of us is only to come back home to Him.
You are very right that we are children of God and that’s where our identity resides. We can’t run from that identity, and our souls can rest only in knowing and accepting that truth. You are also very right that our spirit does not rely on our human form and more so gender. Our spirit — the spirit that desires our Creator and commits ourselves to Him– is gender neutral.
Your commitment to God is very inspiring.
You mentioned in the introduction of the testimony that that was a life that *you* created, and not God. This makes sense to me because anyone who is living a life apart from God can never be whole. You probably felt restless even though you had created an identity for yourself — one that you thought was anchored in a homosexual lifestyle– but you know in the depths of your being that that was a lie.
My sense is that perhaps you were not really homosexual to begin with, and that lifestyle was something you pursued and created for yourself then so that you might have something, in this case “homosexuality”, to hold on to as a form of identity for you for whatever personal reasons you may have (e.g. to fit in with your friends, an answer to why you are more artistic or could not connect with the men in your life, etc).
Interestingly for many people with alternative sexual orientations, they are not very much different than you and I. They may or may not have any issues relating to the same gender, and can be very well adjusted. I noticed that you seem to link a homosexual lifestyle to being “messed up”– drinking, partying away and getting involved in drugs and “party friends”. This may not be the case for homosexuals and such a description may be misleading to others and creates homophobia and negative perceptions of homosexuals. Not all homosexuals are “messed up”. Furthermore, research has shown that homosexuals seem to be “messed up” only because they are largely rejected by society and they are conflicted due to the social norms, which are contrary to their knowledge of who they are. Similar to heterosexuals who would feel that living a homosexual lifestyle is a lie, homosexuals living a heterosexual lifestyle also feel that they are living a lie. They cannot be assumed to have chosen to turn away from God. It takes a lot of courage for them to come to terms with their being — the way Creator has created them to be.
Can you possibly imagine how painful would it be to be told by your loved ones and especially by your church, who represents an all-loving God, that their sexual orientation is wrong — that they are an error. Who would choose to be created a mistake? In your sharing, you seem to allude to homosexuality as an error in thinking and perception. Instinct and behaviour are, in fact, separate from thinking and perception. You seem to also allude that one cannot be homosexual and accept God in their lives at the same time. It means that to accept fully the Love of God, one has to renounce that integral part of the human self that is sexuality, and vice versa.
God does not make mistakes, and He loves us in all forms. He has created us, fat and skinny, tall and short, blue-eyed and brown-eyed, black and white, male and female, intelligent and not so, and everything else in between, because He is all powerful, all loving, all knowing, and He makes no mistakes. YOU, as a human being, the created, are loved in all shapes and sizes, homosexual or heterosexual. This awesome Love is the Good News of our God.