Imagine, you walk into your child’s room and find cocaine in a drawer. Immediately, you’re shocked because your child never showed signs of drug use. You question your child about the drugs and your child says the drugs were received from a friend and they like how it makes them feel.

Most parents wouldn’t be okay with this behavior. Everything in us would tell our children NO and we would want to get them some help. We would have this reaction because we love our child, want the best for our child, and we know drugs won’t benefit our child.

God has the same reaction when it comes to homosexuality. God’s dissatisfaction towards homosexuality is not based on hate, but love. Although some people may enjoy the lifestyle and it makes them feel good, God knows it won’t positively impact our lives.

Like the parent who wouldn’t hate their child who is on drugs, God doesn’t hate the person who engages in homosexuality. Just like all sin, including gluttony or fornication, God detests the sin of homosexuality and not the person committing the act. Also, like all sin, homosexuality has been paid for by the blood of Jesus.

God is our Father and He loves us and knows what’s best for us. If He, the Creator of our lives, tells us not to engage in certain behaviors, it’s safe to say those behaviors will not benefit our lives. God’s instructions come from a place of love and not hate.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10, “Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”