When Culture Invades the Bathroom

Genesis 1:27 English Standard Version (ESV)

27 So God created man in his own image,

    in the image of God he created him;

    male and female he created them.

Genesis 3:22-23 New Living Translation (NLT)

22 Then the Lord God said, “Look, the human beings[a] have become like us, knowing both good and evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life, and eat it? Then they will live forever!” 23 So the Lord God banished them from the Garden of Eden, and he sent Adam out to cultivate the ground from which he had been made.

The transgender debate over bathrooms became personal for me last night.  I went with my family to the theater to watch a movie and found it heavily attended by an unexpected crowd, transgender men dressed as women.  They were there for a special showing of a documentary movie about their lives and issues, while we were there to watch the Avengers movie.  Between the pop I drank and the length of the movie I found myself needing a bathroom, but I didn't want to use it.  I just wasn't ready to go with the flow of this cultural battle and doubt that I ever will be.  I'm not that brave and not even all that comfortable sharing a bathroom with anyone, let alone stylish turned out men.  So I held it.  

The great consequences of the fall require a great Savior.

Crimson - Nichole Nordeman  

My God In Every Circumstance

“The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances.”


― Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart

2 Corinthians 12:8-10

English Standard Version (ESV)

8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

2 Samuel 22:3

King James Version (KJV)

3 The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.

Psalm 91: 1-2

1 Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High

    will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.[a]

2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,

    my God, in whom I trust.”

Romans 8:18

English Standard Version (ESV)

Future Glory

18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

I found myself missing my youth yesterday as I walked this beach with my husband.  Actually my husband and the dog walked ahead of me because I was slowed by rheumatoid arthritis pain.  My last memories of this beach were running and playing on it as a child.   It was a favorite picnic place for my parents.  In the days before fast food restaurants and play lands this was a good place for children and we loved it.  Yesterday it was nearly deserted and the place where we would eat around a fire was all overgrown.  I found myself fighting a sense of melancholy along with the pain.  Life has moved on.  The large rock that sheltered us from the wind and allowed our fire to burn, however, was still standing firm so many year later.  I am reminded that God is like that rock, unchanging, unmoving, a sweet shelter for His children, a warm place to rest and be refreshed.  My circumstances may have changed but my Jesus hasn't. 

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