I am a woman. I don’t “identify” as a woman. I’m not “living” as a woman. I am a woman. Biologically. In my chromosomes and DNA. I cannot change the fact of who I am because who I am is who God created me to be. My sexuality is tied to my biological reality. My gender is tied to my biological reality. My gender cannot change because my biological reality cannot change. My role as a woman is as unique to my sex (biological reality) in application as the role of a man is unique to his biological sex. Neither one of us is able to fulfill the purpose for which we were designed if we succumb to the bullying of modern culture which openly and unashamedly touts the untruth that there is no biological reality and the sooner we accept that, the better.
It is utter foolishness to believe, as Joe apparently does, that women can do everything that men can do and do it even better. It is incredibly demoralizing and once again demonstrates his unrelenting ignorance. I’d caution him that his stupid is on display, but I can’t imagine that he’s not already well aware of that fact. To put it bluntly and in simple words so even he can understand: A woman cannot father a child. That biological reality is solely and exclusively the province of men. Just for fun, though, it would be fascinating to hear Mr. Biden try to defend his idiotic declaration that women can do anything men can do.
But, oh, the things that I can do because I am a woman. I can carry and birth a child. I can nurse a child at my breast. I can nurture and provide a loving and grace-filled environment for a child to grow up in. I can teach and train my child up in the ways of the Lord, I can discipline and encourage; plant roots and give wings. I can show them what it means to be a woman. Their father, my husband, a biological man, can teach them what it means to be a man. Together, as a family unit, we love one another, we support one another, we teach one another and learn from each other, and all from a foundation of truth. Without truth to both ground and build your life on, having a family is not much more than an exercise in futility.
The fact that I am a woman, created in the image of God, grants me the privilege of being equal in value alongside every other person, male and female, regardless of race, ability or belief. The truth about us, about humanity, living or dead, is that we have all been fashioned in God’s image and therefore bear the irrevocable stamp of inherent and equal value. Just think on that a minute. Miriam Webster defines inherent as existing in something as a permanent, essential, or characteristic attribute. Value is intrinsic to who we are as humans. Without it, we perpetrate and justify unconscionable evil:
My value as a human being, in God’s eyes, does not increase or decrease based on what I do or don’t do, how big or small I am or how long I have been alive. While it is true that scores of people have made and continue to make horrifically sinful decisions that wreak death and destruction, it does not follow that God de-values them or tosses them aside as if unredeemable. If that were the case, then we are all hopelessly lost in our sin without any possibility of salvation. Untold numbers of people choose to live their lives in a conscience state of rebellion against God. As a society, we de-value those people because of how they have chosen to spend their days. However, even those who oppose God and hate their fellow man do not lose value in the sight of God; and, until the very moment death overtakes them, they still have a choice: To accept or reject the gift of eternal life.
John 13:I makes this incredible statement: Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
Them. Judas included. The lost cause was not lost to God, not yet. Jesus still loved him. Jesus didn’t disassociate from Judas. He didn’t tell him that he couldn’t be part of the disciples anymore or that he wasn’t wanted. NO! Jesus loved him, loved them, loves us until the very end. Love is nothing if what it’s bestowed upon doesn’t have value. Judas had value because he was made in the image of God and that made him worth loving. Jesus knew that Judas was going to go out that night and betray Him, but He didn’t let that stop Him from ministering to him one last time. How beautiful is that?!
We value people if they agree with us, if they condone our behavior, if they accept who we are and what we’re about. We de-value people if their view differs from ours, if they engage in conversation or behavior that we disagree with, if their worldview stands in opposition to ours, if their rhetoric and ideology is incompatible with what we hold dear. I do it. I’d like to be able to say that I look at everyone equally and see their value to the God who created them before I see their politics or ideology, their outright stupidity or ignorance. But I don’t. The evidence of corrupt and deceived minds is all too apparent and the image of God that is stamped on myriad individuals’ souls has been suppressed beyond recognition – to me, but not to God.
Granted, people choose to reject God. They choose to live a life apart from moral absolutes and to deny the truth at all costs. Those choices warp and twist the image of God that they bear, but it does not de-value their life as human beings. If God did not value those who reject Him, why did Christ humble Himself and become obedient to death, even death on a cross (Phil. 2:8)? Why would He care (so love the world, John 3:16) if we, His creations, lived or died? Why would Jesus give His life in exchange for ours? The only way it makes sense is if, in His perfect love, He sees us as intrinsically valuable – not because of what we’ve done, but because of what He has done. We tend to place value upon a person based on their performance. If I do what is good and right, my value increases in the eyes of the world: If I do what is evil and degrading, my value decreases. (In today’s world that might actually be reversed – the greater the debauchery, the greater my value) Even so, that’s still subjective reasoning. God does not see as man sees (I Sam. 16:7).
To deny biological reality, to claim “liberation” from every moral structure or objective truth is not freedom; in fact, it’s the exact opposite. Freedom is only able to thrive when it knows where the boundaries are. A distinct lack of boundaries results in exactly what we see going on in culture today: perversion, licentiousness, intellectual weakness and depravity, the grooming and sexual exploitation of children, tearing down of personal responsibility and on and on. To the radical left, to the President of the United States, to the NCAA, to the IOC, to the transgender activists and social justice warriors; to the perverts, degenerates, pedophiles and child abusers who run “gay” camps and “sexy sex-ed” camps for kids, it’s all good.
When you tear down the mores that have held a society together for centuries, there ain’t nothin’ good gonna’ come of that. Evil becomes good. Right becomes wrong and children pay the price as they are sacrificed on the altar of convenience, held up as political props by their parents and sold into sex slavery and exploitation in the name of equality and justice for all. We are sick, sick, sick, sick, sick; but not without hope. There is coming a Day when, at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Phil. 2:10-11
The mouths that today spew vitriol and hatred, the angry and unreasonable mobs who terrorize, intimidate and cancel, the little people who think they have big power will, in that Day, bow. No choice. No option. And out of their mouths will come, at long last, truth: Jesus Christ is Lord!
But for now; for today, be prepared to fight. Fight for your families, for your children and grandchildren. Fight for what is right, for biblical truth, for biblical justice. Don’t let fear take away your voice or stifle your speech. Be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power (Eph. 6:10-18).
