{"id":67192,"date":"2024-06-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/?p=67192"},"modified":"2024-06-16T12:09:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T19:09:36","slug":"does-god-make-mistakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realfaith.com\/daily-devotions\/does-god-make-mistakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Does God Make Mistakes?","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThis God\u2013his way is perfect; the word of the LORD proves true\u2026\u201d – Psalm 18:30<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday we talked about the way our radical culture is hurting young people. Today we\u2019re going to dive a little deeper into this culture war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you look at the LGBTQIA, the alphabet soup people, there\u2019s a group that\u2019s trying to add in an \u201cM\u201d for \u201cminor-attracted persons.\u201d We used to call them pedophiles. Apparently, Satan got a marketing firm and rebranded this idea. Minor-attracted persons are adults who are attracted to children. To paraphrase, Jesus said these people should get free millstone jewelry and a one-way boat trip to the middle of an ocean. (Matthew 18:6) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world is telling our children, \u201cGod didn\u2019t make you a boy. God didn\u2019t make you a girl. And if He did, maybe God made a mistake and He sinned against you. So, we need to undo the error God has done, and you need to go explore your gender. To atone for God\u2019s sin, we are going to cut your body and shed your blood to remake you and fix God\u2019s sin of making you the wrong gender.\u201d As Christians, we need to say three things. One, \u201cNo!\u201d Two, \u201cNo!\u201d Three, \u201cHell no!\u201d God tells us who we are. God made us in two categories: male and female. Jesus atoned for our sin against Him by shedding His blood; we do not atone for His sin against us by shedding our blood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whenever I talk about men, triggered fools say, \u201cYou hate women.\u201d I actually married one, and I have two daughters, and at the time of writing this, I have a granddaughter on the way. I actually find women more enjoyable than men, to be totally honest with you. They smell better, they\u2019re pleasant, and they tend to be more relational. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I\u2019m not anti-woman. Just because I\u2019m for<\/em> men doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m against<\/em> women. As we say at Real Men, \u201cWe build men up to bless women and children.\u201d Since half of abortions are taking the lives of females, young women are getting sexually assaulted in record numbers, and we are encouraging men to shower in women\u2019s locker rooms after crushing them in sports, I would strenuously argue that our woke world is not warm toward women. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But you need to know that this war on sex and gender is for your children, and it\u2019s for the next generation. The world is taking children and saying, \u201cYou don\u2019t have a sex, and you\u2019re not actually male or female. You don\u2019t have a gender; you can be very confused.\u201d The world is setting them up for a lot of sexual experimentation as a child. In what universe does an eight-year-old kid have a sexual identity? If a kid is eight and sexual, somebody has committed a crime. That\u2019s not education; that\u2019s indoctrination. Encouraging kids to explore their genitalia, along with their friends\u2019 genitalia, is not helping; it\u2019s grooming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s way is perfect and it\u2019s the only way that works. We must align our identity with His way; that we were made in His image as male and female, and God doesn\u2019t make mistakes. Tomorrow we will look at the importance of thinking biblically about sex and gender. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is there an area of your life where you wonder if God made a mistake? <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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