A certain celebrity came out in Vanity Fair saying this about his 10 hour facial-feminization surgery, “What did I just do? What did I just do to myself?” The article goes on to say, “A counselor from the Los Angeles Gender Center came to the house so Jenner could talk to a professional and assured her [him] that such reactions were often induced by pain medication and that second-guessing was human and temporary” (Bissinger). Wow, that is quite a revelation. It is possible to be so far down the wrong path that you finally have a moment of clarity to look up and say, “What am I doing?” It appears that a moment like that came for Bruce. When it did, where did he turn? He turned to the Los Angeles Gender Center. When they were done with him, Bruce put his head back into the darkness and kept shuffling down that broad and crowded road.
So the question is, what do you do with your moments of clarity? What do you do with those moments when you know what you are doing is wrong? You know that in that moment you could change for the better or continue down the path you started on. Will you be alert enough to capitalize on those moments?
Paul wrote to several groups of people about waking up and not sleeping. The issue was that they had gone back to sin and had fallen asleep in it. They were shuffling down that broad road without thought or concern of the consequences. “For this reason it says, ‘Awake, sleeper, And arise from the dead, And Christ will shine on you.’ Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise men but as wise” (Eph. 5:14-15). Our response in those moments of clarity should be to wake up! Repent! Run to the light at fast as possible! We should not seek counsel from the darkness and have any expectation to be closer to God. We must seek wise counsel.
You may be in need of waking up, or you may have the responsibility of providing wise counsel. God said we should speak to Bruce and anyone in sin this way. “The Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him to do his will” (2 Tim. 2:24-26).
It is evident that Bruce has been snared by the devil. When he had the opportunity for change, he did not take it. Maybe he will someday. Are you doing the same as Mr. Jenner? Do you need to make changes and turn back to God? As a bond-servant we must remember that sin never looks good, but we always have a responsibility to help the sinner change.