There’s another possibility to consider—one that rejects any hint of pride on our part while not ignoring our responsibility to remain faithful and true to God’s divine revelation.  While the LGBTQ crowd and others celebrate pride and immoral sexual orientation/behaviors, we might consider June an appropriate and opportune time to pursue holiness as a call to humility.

The month of June—a once fairly quiet month with the exception of Father’s Day—is now a more pronounced month of celebration of pride in sexual orientation and behaviors. For Christians—and perhaps for others—pride is listed in scripture as sin as are same-sex sexual relations.  For a whole month to celebrate what God’s divine revelation reveals to be sin presents a dilemma for many.  The fact that most cannot and must not celebrate either pride or immoral sexual behavior—the same would be true of heterosexual immoral behaviors and pride—puts many in a position of being considered hateful or bigoted.

Christians are confronted with a spiraling paganization of our church, culture, nation, and society.  Ancient history reveals to us pagan societies that flaunted sin and resisted God’s commands in many areas of life, e.g., idolatry, sexual immoralities, baby and child sacrifices, oppression of women, and more.  It appears we have come to perhaps an equivalent paganism revealed by what we accept, what we approve of, what we practice, and now what we celebrate.  All manner of sexual immorality—homosexual, heterosexual, polyamorous sexuality and more—mass murder of the unborn, about-to-be-born, partially-birthed, and just-born are just two of the more flagrant current paganistic practices.  The steep decline in our nation and culture causes many who could never have anticipated such changes to reel with ominous perplexity.

The rainbow, that symbol that God had severely judged the earth and promised to the few survivors that He would never again destroy the earth with water, is now usurped to celebrate perhaps just one of the many sins that brought about such harsh judgment:

Then God spoke to Noah and to his sons with him, saying, “Now behold, I Myself am establishing My covenant with you, and with your descendants after you; and with every living creature that is with you: the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you; of all that comes out of the ark, every animal of the earth.   I establish My covenant with you; and all flesh shall never again be eliminated by the waters of a flood, nor shall there again be a flood to destroy the earth.”  God said, “This is the sign of the covenant which I am making between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations; I have set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall serve as a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth. (Genesis 9: 8-13)

God’s beautiful reminder of His covenantal promise is the most unlikely and inconceivable logo for major sexual immorality.

As Christians, how are we to face such a spiritual dilemma?  Are we to keep silent and do our best to ignore it all?  One way of dealing with the dilemma was posted on social media: “Lord, give us the courage to stand up and shout in the face of evil when everyone else is whispering.  Give us faith to stand on what we know to be true and strength to last out the battle.”

There’s another possibility to consider—one that rejects any hint of pride on our part while not ignoring our responsibility to remain faithful and true to God’s divine revelation.  While the LGBTQ crowd and others celebrate pride and immoral sexual orientation/behaviors, we might consider June an appropriate and opportune time to pursue holiness as a call to humility.

How? For one, we wouldn’t allow any sense of spiritual pride over those caught in such lifestyles—as gravely serious as they are—being aware of our own personal sinful natures and struggles.  It would call us to humbly seek the Holy Spirit’s work in our own lives.  It would encourage us to pray specifically for anyone we know to be in such sexual bondage and in general for the LGBTQ community. However, more than anything else, we would, in humility, corporately identify with our increasingly paganizing nation and plead for God’s spiritual revival wherein we would faithfully proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ that frees people from sin’s control and domination —including same-sex sexual sin—and revive in us a hatred of sin and need of righteousness.  In so doing, we as the church would align ourselves with God Who promised Solomon:

 ^{“. . .} and My people who are called by My name humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”  (2 Chronicles 7: 14)

Let’s pursue Holiness, a Call to Humility for the month of June as especially appropriate while acknowledging it’s appropriate for all twelve months of the year.

Helen Louise Herndon is a member of Central Presbyterian Church (EPC) in St. Louis, Missouri. She is freelance writer and served as a missionary to the Arab/Muslim world in France and North Africa.