'Letters to God'

‘And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:2-4)

There is no denial that as we entered adulthood, our worldview change. We think that we are pretty self-sufficient, especially when everything is going in our favor. We acquired more knowledge but unfortunately mistaken it as wisdom.  The more we know, the more we become skeptical and cynical.

Little children have no such hang-up like we adults. They are very impressionable. Here are some examples of their ‘letters to God’:

   ‘Dear God, I would like to live nine hundred years like the guy in the Bible.’

• ‘Dear God, We read that Thomas Edison made light, but in Sunday school they said you did. So I bet he stole your idea.’
• ‘Dear God, if you give me a genie lamp, I will give you everything I have except my money and my chess set.’
• ‘Dear God, Please send xxxxxx to different camp this year.’
• ‘Dear God, May be Cain & Abel would not kill so much if they have their own rooms. It works with my brother and me.’
• ‘Dear God, Please put another holiday between Christmas and Easter. There is nothing good in them now.’
• ‘Dear God, Instead of letting people died & having to make new ones, why don’t you just keep the ones you have now?’
• ‘Dear God, I went to this wedding and they kissed in the church. Is it OK?’
• ‘Dear God, I’m American. What are you?’
• ‘Dear God, Thanks for a baby brother, but what I am praying is a puppy.’
• ‘Dear God, I bet it is very hard for you to love all and everybody in the whole world. There are only four people in our family. I can never do that.’
• Dear God, I would like to live nine hundred years like the guy in the Bible.'

LGBT challenge

Leviticus 18:22 "Do not practice homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman. It is a detestable sin." (Leviticus 18:22)

LGBT Challenge In this country, Section 377A of the Penal Code criminalizes gay sex. It was legally challenged recently by a gay couple on the ground that it is unconstitutional but the case was dismissed by the court. The gay partners’ statement after the verdict shocked me: “we believe that most people here do not believe that gay people should be jailed for something they can’t change.”

In reality, very few people actually become gay because of biological sexual orientation. More do so out of their choice of lifestyles. In today’s context, homosexuality is no more seen in the light of morality and social values. In fact, moral values are relative and nothing is absolute. We live in an era when more are taking the view that there is no such thing as ‘objective truth’ and believe that ‘my truth is as good as your truth’. Truth has thus been dethroned and replaced with the enthronement of ‘reason’. So don’t talk about sin since sin is what a person conceived in his mind. For that reason, Christians are often been singled out as being narrow-minded self-righteousness, intolerance, biased, hatred towards LGBT.

In UK, gay couples are called civil partnerships. They are allowed to be registered as married couples, hence, entitled to a wide range of legal, social rights and benefits. In fact, they get better deals than those heterosexuals who choose co-habitation over marriage. Will our country moves toward that direction eventually? I think so as we have already been told to manage these tensions, to be caring and sensitive, patience and compromise. Just look at the massive crowd of 21,000 turned out at the ‘pink dot’ rally last Saturday at Hong Lim Park.

In this country, we are benefitting from the moral standards of our forefathers, but thing will change if we embrace liberalism indiscriminately. The morals, values and ethnics of our culture are disintegrating at an alarming pace. How would our society defines ‘family’ and 'marriage'in future? It is scary to think of that.