Aliens in America: Day 32

Common Sense Holiness 

‘As aliens, live in reverent fear’ (1 Pet. 1:17). 

The grateful Dad reminded me of the counsel I gave him years earlier. ‘Your son is not gay, let alone a girl. He’s waiting for his father to confirm and help him integrate his creative gifts into the whole of his masculinity.’ Dad did just that; son became a fine father himself. 

When God invites us ‘to be holy as I am holy,’ He reminds us of what we can’t not know: who we truly are in the light of who He is. Holiness involves clarity of identity. After all, He has some claim on His creation. We honor Him and who we are by heeding inner prompts that tell truth.  

Especially in the sexual realm. Our inspired personhood speaks a better word than a host of claims that the world has on us. We honor Him as aliens when we exercise common sense and seek to be reconciled to who we are as the son and daughter of His design.   

The Holy God—uncreated––helps us live in accord with our creation. Amid the societal noise, we know what is true and best, accessible even to the most confused. We forego reason by giving children the ‘right’ to decide their sexuality amid an array of ‘options’ sourced in desperate lives glamorized on TikTok. Insanity. Period.  

We have lost our way, and we are losing our kids to a ‘queer’ culture that binds them to a self-serving adolescence.  

That has implications for the public square. That includes every effort public schools make to cast vision for a child’s ‘alternate’ sexual realities other than becoming whole-enough expressions of his or her real sex.   

The truth of natural law—what we can’t not know—assists us here. ‘Politics is a much broader reality than mere voting and legislating. This broader Catholic sense of the political encompasses all of the many ways that a culture and society are formed, including a recognition of the natural law. And it is only such a divine law, recognized in our natural law reasoning, that can act as a limiting principle on the powers of government’ (Dr. Larry Chapp).  

Holiness means common sense morality: we can know what is good for people. And what isn’t. We exercise wisdom in protecting the unborn, helping children make peace with their biological sex, and encouraging the young to integrate good powers of life and love. Such truth issues from the One who made us. We who know this God and His wisdom shouldn’t shy away from saying so. Holiness applies to the health of all. 

The world around us is sinking in its culture of death. St. Paul says it like this: ‘Everyone looks out for their own interests, not the interests of Jesus Christ’ (Phil. 2:21). In other words, assertions like I determine the life of my child, I will ‘gay-identify and ‘marry,’ and I can change my ‘sex’ are acts that defy the Holy One. We contend that these choices are not the best ones for any society. As Christians, we must ensure healthy alternatives that align with natural law in the public square.        

We are on a fast track to oblivion. A researcher who has championed puberty blockers for dysphoric teens hid the results of a multimillion-dollar federal study on transgender youth. Why? Her long-term study on ‘blocked’ teens revealed that they were not helped by massive hormone treatments. ‘Scientists’ are now lying to support their ideological dogma. Is the government ready to hear the truth?   

We can know better. We do know better. We must say so and be heard for such a time as this.   

‘Help us to own our holiness as aliens and say so. Give us strength and courage to declare truth. A generation is perishing because we say nothing.  May we express with wisdom and compassion and persistence what we can’t not know; in so doing, we trust You, Holy God, to make a way for the most vulnerable.’    

‘Jesus, You are the King, and we are first citizens of Your Kingdom. Would you free us for You in this election season, not to hide but to shine? You’ve always asked nothing less from Your elect whom You have made ‘strangers in a strange land’ (Ex. 2:22). Here we are, a people who don’t know what to do but who look and listen to our King.  

“Father of all holiness, 

guide our hearts to You. 

Keep in the light of Your Truth 

all those You have freed from the darkness of unbelief. 

We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son.”’ 

Amen