May 10
God crafted man just like God himself, in God’s own image. He created a male and a female, the first man and woman—Genesis 2:27 (King Jimmy Translation)
I Have Evolved. Have You?
The media made great fanfare about the recent transformation of Bruce Jenner, the 1976 Olympic Gold Medal winner. President Obama declared him “courageous” for telling his story. ESPN bestowed upon him the Author Ashe Courage Award for revealing who he really was. Vanity Fair capped off this media-hyped blitz by posting Jenner wearing a sultry swimsuit on their July 2015 cover. In the exclusive interview, Jenner declared to the world he was a changed man. He evolved into a she. Ladies and gentlemen, introducing—Caitlyn Jenner.
After Jenner dazzled the world with his performance in the 1976 Olympics in the Decathlon, he went on to marry and father children. Once the adulations quieted and the victories faded to nothing more than footnotes in Olympic history, Bruce discovered his feminine side—and it demanded his undivided attention. Inside Jenner’s well-disciplined, muscular body lurked “Caitlyn,” the raging beauty, unfairly trapped by the gender gods in a world-class athlete’s body. She must escape and tell the world who she really was. Without a doubt, God made a big mistake on this one.
The internal turmoil that waged for years became more than he could bear. Finally, what today’s culture heralds as an act of great courage, Bruce Caitlyn, revealed himself herself to the world. The world applauded Bru . . . Caitlyn’s new life. She (whatever) basked in the adulations and praises again.
Like Caitlyn, I, too, have evolved. After years of suppressing my identity, I, Jimmy Eskew, Aggie, husband of the lovely Mrs. Aggie, father of two beautiful daughters and grandfather to five grandchildren, finally broke free from the fable I’d been living in public and declared to the world who I really was. You see, I finally identified with who I am—I’m really an emu.
Here’s my story. As a second-grader, I realized I was different from my classmates when, on a field trip to the zoo, at the emu exhibit, I felt an immediate bonding of my soul with the emu’s souls. It was when I made eye contact with a particular attractive emu with long eyelashes, I knew trapped inside my little seven-year old body was an emu, scratching to get out.
For a long time, my condition was obvious to my family, but they discussed it in hushed tones. My parents suspected I was an emu when they recognized my long, slender, hairy legs, and my little pot-bellied tummy, plus my six-foot frame, was identical to the average emu. I flapped my arms when I fled from school-yard bullies—same as an emu flaps its little six-inch wings, evading a predator. My true identity became undeniable when my folks found me pecking for grubs in the garden. Most important, female emus will fight to the death to mate with a male emu. Not wanting to brag, but what more can I say?
Hopefully, most of you are thinking, Jimmy, this is a spoof, right? You’re not an emu. Have you lost your mind?
Look around. Without a doubt, the world has gone nuts. But no matter the whims of society or whatever the flavor-of-the-month craze modern culture dumps on us, God’s words remain. God wasted no time making it clear in the first chapter of his Word: “In the image of God, he created them. He created them male and female” (Genesis 1:27). He implanted in us male and female DNA, and this truth will never change. Whatever plumbing you were “assigned” at birth, sorry, but that is who you are.
The world may consider me a bigot, a transgender-phobic, and intolerant, narrow-minded evangelical sexist for stating that God created us male and female. I’m okay if they label me as such.
Truth: God did not trap a male in a female body, or a female in a male body. He created us in His image, with unique and unlimited creativity.
Like our misguided Olympic athlete friend, I was born into sin, with a sin nature. Like Jenner, I needed a savior, too. I needed God’s grace. Brother Bruce claims to know Jesus, and I am not disputing that. God knows who belongs to him. He wants us to be all he created us to be and fulfill his purpose for our life.
Lord, my prayer for brother Caitlyn is the same for myself and all of us—that we find our true identity in Christ. May we all identify with you, Lord Jesus, to be the people you destined us to become.
Stay close to Jesus
Jimmy
After completing this article, I sent a scathing letter to the CEO’s office of a well-known department store, complaining that although they now have gender-neutral restroom, they lack of emu neutral-gender restrooms in their stores.
Jimmy Eskew ©2015
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