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Daily
Encouragement on
Monday, May 13,
2019
Hummingbird
(photo by Doris High)
(photo by Doris High)
Male
And Female He Created Them
Note
1: The
Bible speaks of
"little members"
in regard to our
body parts, "Even
so the tongue
is a little
member,
and boasteth
great things"
(James 3:5).
Saturday I was
working in my
backyard and got
a big splinter
in my left hand
near my index
finger. It sure
makes me realize
how important
that "little
member" is! It's
very hard to
type the message
today.
Note
2: This
week's series
may be offensive
to some who have
rejected God's
revealed pattern
and bought into
worldly
philosophies.
Message
summary:
It's vitally
important to
know God's
pattern and
contend
earnestly for
it. At creation
we read that
"male and female
He (God) created
them". This
reality is not
only observed by
outward physical
characteristics
but even at the
DNA level.
When
I first
started
writing these
Daily
Encouragement
messages in
1996 I was 42
years old. Now
Brooksyne and
I are both in
our sixties
and
experiencing a
few things
that go along
with aspects
of aging! We
now have an
increase in
aches and
pains, a
common
characteristic
of those in
our age
bracket. Our
parents often
said how hard
it was getting
older but, not
being able to
identify with
them at the
time, we just
nodded in
agreement as
though we did
understand!
In
our lifetime
the world has
changed a lot
which was also
the experience
for our
parents,
grandparents
and each
generation
before.
Technology
advances in
each
generation,
although in
the last 100
years the pace
has rapidly
increased. My
grandfather
was alive for
man's first
flight at
Kitty Hawk and
lived to see
the moon
landings.
Remember
how unusual it
looked when
you first saw
someone out on
their porch
talking on a
cordless phone
in the 80's!
Now you see
people talking
or you find
yourself
talking on
phones
everywhere. We
still remember
shopping for
our first boom
box which
seemed so new
and cool at
the time.
Imagine how
cool you would
look carrying
one of those
on your
shoulders
these days as
you strut
along Main
Street USA!But
in our
lifetime,
especially the
last twenty
years, we have
seen other
changes in
a much more
fundamental
way. A popular
faddish
academic
concept that
many now
subscribe to
is "social
construct",
which
essentially
asserts that
something
exists not in
objective
reality, but
as a result of
human
interaction.
Some aspects
of this make
sense like,
why does a
piece of paper
(money) have
value? Because
we as humans
have assigned
it value. It
doesn't mean a
thing to our
dogs!
However
the social
construct
concept is now
used to
justify a
rejection of
God's
fundamental
patterns as
expressed at
Creation and
taught all
through the
Bible. Issues
like
sexuality,
marriage, and
children are
all being
redefined.
It's likely
that one
subscribing to
an
evolutionary
model sees
people as
nothing more
than products
of blind
chance which
is a logical
consequence.
I
was preparing
a Mother's Day
message for
today which we
will share
later this
week when I
came across
this news
clip: "In
Australia a
primary school
renamed its
Mother's Day
in case it
offends
children who
don't have a
mom. The
principal
explained, 'I
sincerely hope
that this
change in name
will show that
we as a
community
recognize that
our families
are not made
up of any
particular
combination of
people and
that we no
longer
subscribe to a
binary
world.'"
This
madness is
explained by a
progressive
website: "The
notion that
both sex and
gender are
binary, with
everyone
fitting into
either a male
or female box,
is a social
construct." Of
course this
new
understanding
violates not
only basic
biology but
God's pattern
from the
beginning that
"male and
female He
created them".
Everyone
has a mother.
She may or may
not be a
"good" mother.
She may or may
not currently
be in the
child's life.
But
everyone has a
mother.
Unless some
sinister
medical
experiment has
advanced to
the point of
creating human
life without
one, which is
probably being
worked on even
as you read
this message.
It's
vitally
important to
know God's
pattern and
contend
earnestly for
it. At creation
we read that
"male and female
He (God) created
them". This
reality is not
only observed by
outward physical
characteristics
but even at the
DNA level.
Today
let us
acknowledge and
rejoice in the
excellency of
God's created
pattern, along
with the
characteristics
complimentary to
His creation,
which he
described as
"very good".
Be encouraged today,
Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Be encouraged today,
Stephen & Brooksyne Weber
Daily
prayer:
Father,
as followers
of Christ, we
look to the
Bible for
guidance, for
wisdom, and
for our
origins. In
Genesis You
said, "Let us
make mankind
in our image,
in our
likeness, so
that they may
rule over the
fish in the
sea and the
birds in the
sky, over the
livestock and
all the wild
animals, and
over all the
creatures that
move along the
ground. So You
created
mankind in
Your own
image, male
and female You
created them."
We celebrate
and give
thanks for
these bodies
of ours that
are made for
Your purpose,
in Your image,
and for Your
glory. May we
honor You by
unashamedly
upholding Your
Scriptural
pattern as the
world embraces
godless sexual
deviations
that defile
Your original
design. In the
name of Jesus
help us we
pray. Amen.Today's
Suggested
Music and
Supplemental Resources
"Total
Praise/It Is
Well" Video Calvary
Church Choir and
Orchestra from
yesterday's service.
Happy
Mother's Day video
tribute Brooksyne's
note: This is a
wonderful video used
in our church service
yesterday honoring
mothers, those who
struggle with
infertility, those
whose child has died
and other aspects of
motherhood. It also
honors women who
become spiritual
mothers to those whose
experience with their
birth mothers brings
only sadness. I
believe it will be a
blessing to you or
someone else who might
benefit.
For
further study on
today's topic:
Here's
a helpful teaching
from Focus On The
Family on this
matter This will
also lead to more
resources.
What
About
Intersexuality?
A very helpful
perspective from Focus
On The Family on a
very rare biological
condition some are
born with.
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