Christians are called to be counter-cultural. Which means there’s only one way to respond to pride month. With humility. Which, of course, is the same way we should respond to every situation and circumstance. Humility for the believer operates on two axes, the vertical, that is, before God and the horizontal, before man. We ought always to begin with the vertical as it defines our obligation on the horizontal.
Humility before God in all things begins with our Amen to whatsoever He has spoken. Our Lord Jesus emphasized over and over, including when He was being assaulted by His enemies, that He only spoke what the Father told Him to. If God says, and He does, that homosexual behavior is shameful, an abomination, perversion, our first calling is to say “amen.” We don’t take the position, as so many otherwise Bible believing churches do, that what God has said is shameful and we won’t repeat it.
If God says, and He does, that we are to expose the works of darkness, we say “amen” without fear of the judgment of men. Just as the hatred against the Father fell on the Son as He told the truth, so it falls on us as we tell the truth (Romans 15:3). That we are hated for recognizing that the Pride Emperor has no clothes changes our obligation not at all. We have to have the humility before God to be willing to be hated.
Connecting the horizontal and vertical planes, we need to remember that what the left calls humility and what God calls humility are not the same. They will tell us that if we were humble, we wouldn’t be so sure of what God said. Which is, of course, just the latest version of the serpent’s question to Eve, “Has God indeed said…”. We are not guilty of pride when we refuse to allow the Pride Paraders to define what humility means.
We do, however, have a proper humility on the vertical plane. When we speak God’s words of judgment against perversion we do so not from His position of absolute holiness, but from our position as sinners just like them. The message to those ensnared by their perversions is both, “There but for the grace of God go we” and “Such once were you” (I Cor. 6:11). We are not, in ourselves, morally superior to those lost souls. We would be with them, in fact, were it not for the sovereign work of the Spirt on and in us.
Without losing sight of the sinfulness of sin, there is an element of pity in our response. Whether it is boy fools who think they are girls, girl fools who think they are boys, or all the other lost souls splashing about in the LGBTQ+ alphabet soup, one ought to see immediately the insanity of it all. Normalizing their insanity is what this month is all about. It’s only normal, however, where the lunatics rule the asylum. The sane, however, don’t mock the insane. We surely don’t validate their insanity, neither do we laugh at it.
Jesus cried over Jerusalem for their lostness, their refusal to acknowledge their need for Him. In humility before Him, let us do the same, knowing we too would have cried out “Crucify Him!” Let us live not by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from His mouth. And let us tell other beggars where we found this bread of life.