Yes. We live in a world where two men or two women engaged in sexual perversion can be said to be married. A world where chemical castration, surgical assaults on private parts, and the intentional murder of the unborn are not only called “health care” but are considered by many an absolute right. A world where anyone who is disturbed by the above is considered not merely uncouth but detestable.
On the one hand we’d be fools to diminish the depth of our current cultural depravity. Every known culture in the history of the world, however much room it might have left for sundry sexual sins, knew that marriage was between a man and a woman. No known culture insisted everyone call some girls boys and some boys girls. On the other hand people have been practicing, from time to time openly, perversion for millenia. For most cultures for most of history, babies, unborn and born, were afforded no legal protection. Meet the new wickedness. Same as the old wickedness.
The ebb and flow of cultures rise and fall depending on the fidelity of God’s people within that culture. This is precisely what it means to be salt and light. The brutal regime of Rome slowly softened through the faithful sacrifices of believers. Whether it was refusing to deny Christ in the face of torture, or caring for abandoned babies left by the pagans, believers lived out the gospel, like an army of Johnny Mustard Seeds.
What they didn’t do was hide or deny their own convictions. They didn’t focus their attention on intramural battles. They didn’t write learned essays of theological sociology. They proclaimed the Lordship of Jesus over all things, and lived as faithful citizens of His kingdom.
The world has gone crazy. But it didn’t happen last week. It didn’t happen when Joe Biden was put in office. It didn’t happen at Obergfell, or Roe. It didn’t happen through Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche or Rousseau. The world went crazy when a man and a woman, living in comfort in a garden, defied their Maker. That was crazy. Their children were born crazy, and their children after them. The truth is, every one of the sexually confused, and everyone that seems quite sane, are by nature crazy descendants of that same crazy couple.
But you want to know the crazy thing? That offended Maker, He kept loving His creatures. He sent His Son to receive His just judgment in our place. He died. But death could not hold Him, because of all those born of women, He alone is sane. He has, ever since, been about the business of remaking this crazy world, and rescuing all those who are His. It’s an astonishing story, made all the more astonishing by being true. Give thanks. Be of good cheer. He has already overcome the world. And lo, He is with us always, even to the end of the age.