Copenhagen has just celebrated the big “2014 Eurovision Song Contest”, watched by more than 180 millions in many countries, where the Austrian homo- and transsexual young boy with a female name, Conchita Wurst, won the prize.  He was embraced with endless enthusiasm and cheers, but not by Russia.

I was disgusted, too, even though I didn´t watch the show.  I was filled with deep revulsion toward this moral insanity, and so was God´s people I´m sure.  I also felt anger that the TV could make millions drink in that kind of perversion a whole Saturday night till early next morning, for the show lasted that long.  God´s judgment is on this pleasure-loving world in its most vulgar form.  Romans chapter 1 is of urgent relevance.

Having collected myself I thought of Joh. 3:16.  Was God so loathed with this sinful and depraved world that He stayed away from it?  No, “for God so loved the world that He gave His only Son…”  Does that apply to homosexuals, prostitutes, transsexuals…you name it?  Of course it does.

I meditated on the little word “so”.  In Greek it suggests intensity. In other words, “For God loved the world so intensely that He gave His Son as Savior to its lost souls deeply sunk in corruption at its worst.  May that intense love finds its way to our hearts as gospel gripped soul winners.

I remember many years ago a  brother from New Tribes Mission saying before leaving for the Indians in the jungle in South America,  “Frankly, I don´t like them!”  His point was of course:  But God does! And He could of course love them through him.  That was a good, practical point.

That applies to you and me, and may that “controlling” love (2 Cor. 5:15) make us not moralists, but evangelists, or at least make us try to “do the work of an evangelist.”  (2 Tim. 4:5).

May 13, 2014 - jn