ChaseMichael 🦧

HAPPY TRANSGENDER AWARENESS MONTH IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST As this month goes forward, I want to take the time to help reflect on this month as well as explain why I have been vocal about this issue lately and why I think Christians need to start. As Transgender people are growing up in this world as people made in His image, we must consider the rise in discrimination and violence raised against transgender people. Especially on a systemic level. Several anti-trans bills have been pushed and passed by the administration we are currently under while the influence of transphobia has shaped the world, especially in America, of encouraging a culture of death. Especially by suicide. God knows the ways and paths we take and He made for us, especially for transgender people. “You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from far away. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways.” Psalms 139:2-3 He even made us without error or mistake. “For it was you who formed my inward parts; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; that I know very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes beheld my unformed substance. In your book were written all the days that were formed for me, when none of them as yet existed.” Psalms 139:13-16 We recognize that in Jesus Christ, we are not separated or divided by identities, but wear the same body which is Christ. “As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise.” Galatians 3:27-29 We need to help preach not just a mere love of God to transgender people, but an inclusive message that shows God wants them as they are: being transgender and not feeling the need to reject who they are. I am speaking more about this recently as in my prayer and fasting, I feel the Holy Spirit and hear the message that convicts me that transgender folk need to be preached a correct message as opposed to the false message promoted today by the devil which teaches transphobia. The fruits of the bad tree teach & encourage suicide while the good tree teaches and promotes life. It would be much better to choose Jesus, who is the Way of Life. Not just life on earth, but life eternally in Christ! So, let’s dedicate this month to showing love in the name of Jesus Christ transgender people by letting them know God loves them as transgender. He does not despise them or think their transgender identity is false or sinful. Furthermore, let’s take a page from the evangelicals in preaching repentance, telling transphobes to repent of their sinful transphobia which leads to path of destruction and many go into it. Preach love, live peace and let Christ’s Light shine within you. Amen.