And yet quotes from sites that do nothing but hate on gays and homosexuals and the like don't apply to that logic?
I would like to make a point:
I know some homosexuals get depressed up making a sacrifice in their lives for Christ, but so did I.
Infact, I struggle and at times still struggle with abstaining from hetrosexual desires and passions. Not to say I am not interested in women, but I struggle to keep my body away from touching yourself, from premarital sex, and from lusting and other desires and passions that would cause me to sin along those lines. It isn't easy and several months ago I contemplated giving up on Christ over that issue, because I felt it is too difficult and impossible. I didn't tell anyone about this, especially people on this forum informing me that touching yourself is not a sin. But inside, I felt conflicted, like I felt such things were not right. I always have always felt this way, even before I decided Christ as my Lord and Saviour.
It isn't easy being a christian. I burn with passions all the time on the inside. It depresses me at times, especially when I feel the spiritual warfare happening right within me, with the Holy Spirit pushing me in one direction and my sin nature pushing me in another.
Especially how I have a girlfriend. It isn't easy....
Sacrifices are hard to make...
I'm not telling anyone to do anything but just making a point here about depression.
As Christians, it isn't the life that people make it out to be. It is about suffering and enduring pain just as Christ also did while God loves us at the same time. Were blessed and suffering at the same time. We burn with passions and desires and are always tempted and attacked by the Evil One at the same time and go through trials and hardships, for the sake of Christ.
It is joyful and depressing at the same time when one experiences spiritual warfare from within him or herself, going against the grain of his own body and mind. It is frustrating and depressing indeed. But we are given joy. Like how women experience the pains of child birth, or how we all experience the pains of working out in a gym, or preparing our bodies for a race, we all feel the joys that come with success. This Christ is our success, and when we take refuge in Him, he helps us in our time of pain and suffering so we can have a way out of it through endurance and faith.
The Holy Spirit brings us joy and happyness, even in times of suffering and sadness and in times where things don't go our way. Use Paul as an example, he suffered greatly! And he was joyful all the way.
The joy of the Lord is our strength. I feel better abstaining from all these desires and passions of mine because I am doing it for the Lord! The joy of loving him and him loving me back all them more makes up for all the suffering! In fact, now, I only experience the depression, since I am breaking His heart, when I sin and fall short of the glory of God by falling back into old habits, but His strength is made perfect in our weakness! How the Holy Spirit wages war within us to make us new creations! Praise the Lord!