"Equal Rights"

This story takes place in a two-dimensional world.There once was a square. The square was lonely all by itself, so God gave it company, a circle. He told the square to love and care for the circle, even when it wasn’t easy, and the circle to respect the square’s expression of love, even when it didn’t make sense. So they did as God asked them and life was truly good. The square and the circle loved each other. But even beyond that, they also liked each other a lot.The square and the circle decided to have babies. Some were little squares and some circles. The cool thing about having a bunch of additional squares around was that whenever the gutters needed to be cleaned, they could just stack up like a pyramid and papa square could easily take care of business at the top. Likewise, having a bunch of circles around made transporting things around the yard really easy. There were so many things that squares and circles could do uniquely. God smiled watching His creation accomplish their daily tasks. Again, life was truly good.One day the squares were off doing whatever squares do (lol). A few of the circles had been playing frisbee when it got lodged in a high tree branch. The circles got tired of waiting on the squares to return, so they decided to fit themselves with temporary edges. They calculated that for each circle, they would need to create four corners. So they took some material from their centers, made four triangles and cut the radius of the circle into the longest side. They strapped these triangles to the test circle, and voila - the circle had been transformed (well, kind of) into a square! They looked a bit queer, especially since they had sacrificed their cores for their new edges, but it seemed to work.God frowned in Heaven, and the angels moaned.The circles took no notice of God’s malcontent and spent the rest of the afternoon making squares out of circles. They had never worked so hard at anything in their lives - they were determined! They’d have to tend to their regularly scheduled chores at some other point, for they all agreed that this was a much more important task!As dusk overtook the land, the squares were returning from wherever squares go to do whatever it is they do (lol). They were all wiping their eyes, for before them stood a pyramid against the setting sun that rose up to treetop level. They were awfully confused, for they quickly discerned that the circles had modified their natural selves and managed to become like squares (well, sort of). They began asking each other, “What use will the circles have for us now? Why would they do such a thing as this?”That night, the papa square asked the mama circle, “What have you done, my dear?” She said, “Well, the girls and I got tired of waiting on your return, so we decided to modify ourselves.” Distraught, the square said, “Well, what do you suppose I tell the boys?” The circle said, while simultaneously realizing the full gravity of the afternoon’s achievement, “Tell them we don’t need them anymore.” The square’s heart ached.The square was weak, so he and the rest of the squares got together the next day, asking, “What shall we do now?” Papa square, in his greatest failure to date, responded, “Well, I don’t want to contend with your mother or your sisters, so let’s figure out a way to coexist peacefully.” There was some murmuring among the more mature squares, but he ignored it. In the end, some of the squares decided to trim off their corners so they could become like circles, even though no one had the skill to cut perfectly rounded edges. They adorned themselves with the clippings, as if jewelry.God and the angels just shook their heads. At this point, the angels began asking God, “Where is this going, Lord, and what will become of Your creation?” Being omniscient, the Lord God said, “Be patient, wait and see, for there is a wonderful lesson to be learned here.” The angels were upset, calling this situation an abomination. God never voiced disagreement, only persisted in His patience.It didn’t take long before their newfound identities began to rot the fabric of their society. It didn’t take long before some squares preferred the life of a circle, and vice versa. And it didn’t take long before some squares decided to marry other squares, and some circles married other circles. As of today, there are even some that identify with both squares and circles.Every so often, a square who identifies appropriately with himself comes along and voices the original intent of their Creator in Heaven. He is taunted by the others, “Don’t be such a square! Why don’t you just go hide in your ancient cave, or wherever you’ve come from…we don’t need the likes of you around here!” They jeer the square for standing up for Truth. What a total mess. Abominations have become lauded as “beautiful” and true beauty has been cast out.Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

For this reason God gave them over to degrading passions; for their women exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.At the final judgment, the circles will say, “We just wanted to be equal with the squares, that’s all. We were tired of waiting around and listening to the flawed authority of the squares. What’s the problem with that?” And the Lord will say, “You are liars, the lot of you. You used terms like ‘equal rights’, but you sought superiority. For what is left for the square if every circle can not only accomplish everything that circles can, but also much of what squares can, too? You don’t fool Me, your Creator, little ones, you have only put My patience to the test. And now it’s too late. The problem, you ask? Simple. You contested My authority. You broke My chain of command. You decided in your own souls, for yourselves, that My love and My plan were insufficient for you. You chose to be lord over yourselves instead of keeping Me as Lord. You cry ‘injustice’ and yet forget how beautiful I made each of you. You lash out at the meek and the innocent and call it reparation. You are lost, some of you for good.”The moral of the story?

The term “equal rights” is a manmade term. Be careful what you accept as “equal rights”, for in many cases, the proponents aren’t looking for equality, they are seeking superiority, regardless of what they say publicly. Such is the nature of sin, itself, “sin is crouching at the door; and its desire is for you, but you must master it” (Genesis 4:7). The sinful flesh is never satisfied with equality. While it is crafty enough to use language that appeals to political sensibilities, its goal is to dominate…make no mistake about it.

Learn to see the forest through the trees, my friends. People aren’t unsatisfied with other people, they are unsatisfied with God, their Creator. They are not protesting against elected officials and governments, they are protesting against God. They are not miserable with those “being square” in this world, they are up in arms about Whom these people represent. This malcontent is as ancient as Satan and the fallen angels. Sin stands against the Lord, it always has. It always attacks the veracity of godly authority, be it the Lord, husbands, parents, elected officials, etc. And it is fiercely blind while doing so.Why do you not understand what I [Jesus] am saying? It is because you cannot hear My word. You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies. But because I speak the truth, you do not believe Me.
Love in Christ,

Ed Collins