Taking a Stand!

The other night, our daughter was on facebook, checking things out. She came across a page that someone created  entitled God. Not that bad, right? Well this person was posting about equality for gay marriages and also had the gay equal sign as their profile picture. That's not right.

So our daughter took a stand and posted on their wall about how marriage is supposed to be with one man and one woman, just like the Bible says. Someone commented back to her saying that Christians don't have a monopoly on God. Now mind you, the page was titled God. Not Alla, Buddha, Baal, or any of the Greek gods. It was titled God. Only Christians use the name God, and if using the name God, you would think that they would believe in what the Bible says. It is God's word by the way!

The attack on her began instantly. First against her faith and then it began to get personal. They attacked her physical appearance, they attacked her believing in the Bible. She had many, many, many negative posts about this. All she was doing was making a comment on what marriage is supposed to be. Not judging others about their choices of lifestyle. She has lost a few friends along the way over this, but that is a part of counting the cost of following Jesus.

Then my best friend in the whole world (well other than my wife) who is also our daughters youth pastor reminded us of this  verse.

Matthew 5:9-11New Living Translation (NLT)

⁹ God blesses those who work for peace,
    for they will be called the children of God.
¹⁰ God blesses those who are persecuted for doing right,
    for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.

¹¹ “God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you^[a] and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers.

I am proud of our daughter for taking a stand for what is true and right. She knows the truth and has heard the truth, both at church and at home.

John 15:18 New Living Translation (NLT)

¹⁸ “If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first."