Undone

In this life, some things simply cannot be undone. Accepting this goes a long way towards finding peace with God – who not only forgives what cannot be undone, but who gives more grace to us in our weakness.

This message is becoming more and more important as the fall out from our degenerate lunacy comes to a head.

Take Sam (not his real name), an eight-year-old boy who decided he wanted to be known as Samantha. His School, his parents, a team of experts so called, and even the local Christian doctor affirmed his subjective feelings and endorsed the transition.

Sam had no way to judge or even measure his subjective experience, except by the affirmation of adults around him. So began a process that has permanently altered his life.

Sam is now 21. He’s far removed from the pressures of the school playground as well as the propaganda that carefully crafted and fostered his childhood feelings. But it’s too late for Sam.

Sam will never have children, is deeply unhappy, and is typically viewed as unattractive by the young women that he likes. His youth was totally swamped with elective medical procedures that kept him from forming the healthy social relationships and experiences that his peers enjoyed.

Today, he finds it very difficult to make friends and hold down a steady job. He is on all kinds of meds that impact his physiology, he suffers brain fog and depression, and his body carries the permanent physical scars inflicted on him by perverted and evil men.

And Sam is just one of thousands who are coming to the cruel realisation that what was done to him cannot be undone.

Sam thought things were bleak at eight and that interrupting manhood, followed by meds and surgery was his only hope. That’s what the grown-ups said. But now, in the aftermath, everything is just doubly hopeless.

He looks at YouTube clips of detransitioners, and he feels like he has swallowed a camel. He’s wondering what the hell the next 60 years of his life is going to look like.

And Sam is now starting to understand, perhaps better than anyone, just how much of this folly cannot be walked back.

Sam is correct. There is much that cannot be reversed. But here is the good news. It can be forgiven. And it can be forgiven today, as in, right now. And in the resurrection, Sam will be restored.

Like the 14 year old girl who was told that what was growing inside her was just a clump of cells, some of the sins involved were done in ignorance and in the manipulated and naive fantasies of a childs mind. All these need to be confessed.

But there were other sins at play here. These were the grossest and most unconscionable things committed by people who knew exactly what they were doing when they affirmed, supported and subjected Sam to this cruelty.

And God is well able to make the distinction between the sins Sam committed and those that were committed against him.

Christ died on the cross, and rose again from the dead, in order that every manner of sin that men and women commit might be cleansed and forgiven.

That includes your perverse sexual desires, your confused sexual identity, your willingness to believe flattering lies from those making cash and getting praise via the mutilation of children. It includes your attacks on the only people who tried to love you. All of it was sin and wickedness, and should be named for what it is.

But you also need to know how much you are forgiven in Christ. And you also need to be ready and willing to extend that same forgiveness to those who took advantage of your confusion.

We are a generation who have come undone through our own unimaginable wickedness. History will not smile on us for what we have done in the name of conformity, science, and drug-addled pride.

But God continues to smile upon those who turn to Him

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life. For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:20-23)

In the days ahead, this message of hope is a message that many more thousands of young people just like Sam are going to need to hear in order to survive.

And those believers who have not taken a deep dive into the filthy swamp will need to have that message, not only at work in their own hearts, but ready on the lips, for the a sake of those who have fallen in the battle.

Where truth, mercy, restoration and love are absent, death will surely follow.

But where Christ is, there is liberty.