For over twenty-five years, since President Clinton, June has been federally recognized as “Pride” month for the LGBTQ+ identified persons. As of the writing of this blog post, President Trump has not recognized this month as “Pride” month as he did during his first term. I am a fifteen+ years delivered ex-homosexual, and I don’t see the point in a self-identified group of people needing a President that most don’t really care for to declare June as “Pride” month. With how the gay agenda has been pushing everything they can down the public’s mouth you would think we all would be vomiting rainbows for years.
I used to celebrate June. From attending my local Pride parade and festival to traveling to other cities for their Pride festival. Usually, it wasn’t for the free merch the booths were passing out, but to hook up with a guy. I was in full Pride bloom. In my mind the skimpier the summer outfit meant the wilder and out there I could be to attract attention. After a day of drinking beer and searching for sex it was a night at the club where all inhibitions were thrown off. Becoming loaded on alcohol made it much easier to perform in the bedroom with whomever I went home with. Yeah, “Pride” month is full of pride.
But what if we as Christians chose to reclaim “Pride” month? I’m not stating we should storm the Capitol to make sure the President and legislators know we are here, and we are… well here. I mean taking what our Lord and Savior told us to do in being bold in sharing the Gospel. Every month of the year it needs to be proclaimed via love and truth. Love alone makes us complicit with the sin. Truth only distorts our message into a proclamation of hate to the individual. I’ve had both spoken to me and neither alone satisfied my deepest need. To return to my Savior with a heart of forgiveness to a Lover of my soul that no “Pride” month could ever fulfill and lasts for eternity.
My mind vividly remembers all those Christians who spoke Jesus to me in love and truth. Though raised in church and coming to Christ at age fourteen, my will and pride wanted my sin greater than what Jesus offered. No one runs from Jesus. He is always there, just beyond you and your sin yet not out of sight. Close enough to hear you whisper to him for help and faster to respond than Alexa.
When I came to him, I still had the stench of my pride and sin all over me. In actuality I was still in the stye. Yet, he picked me up and hasn’t released his hold over me. My eyes are firmly fixated on him. It is only through him that I live and breath, and it is through him that I’m able to tell those still in their pride that only he can give them what they truly desire. As Paul wrote, “Far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ”, Galatians 6:14.
Grace and peace, James
*Scripture from ESV translation, Crossway Publishers, 2001
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Rainbows were created by Yahweh as a covenant between he and humanity to never cover the Earth with a flood. Only he can boast over rainbows. See Genesis 9.