Long ago when I was a teenager I began to cross-dress in secret. This continued for years. I can honestly say that the only the continual pursuit of the Holy Spirit got me to turn from this deception.
My Story
I was raised in an Adventist home. One day, a couple relatives of mine put me in a dress which sparked my interest in cross dressing. I would eventually want to be a girl, but something internal kept saying this isn’t right.
I read the Bible one day where it says not to cross-dress and conviction got ahold of me. So I put it away for time being. But Satan was not done! I would again do it time to time because I would feel a high from doing it.
And then came University where I would be inundated with secular Ideas and how being a transgender was okay. I even took a class on Hebrew literature which did lot of undermining of biblical faith. But the worst came when I was with an Adventist missionary on campus. She would tell me its okay you can be a girl.
My parents even saw that Satan was doing something to my mind, but didn’t know what. I had come out as Gender-Nonconforming to a select few people but word never made it home to my parents.
The Adventist Missionary I mentioned was supposed to have been representing God and helping me get over my sinful tendencies not affirm them! She would counter every biblical point that opposed LGBT. Unsurprisingly, she would later leave her husband and go full force into LGBTQ. She would often say “Present truth is progressive”, thus a way which seemed right was opened before me but it only led to death.
The Role of Media
I used to be a believer in mainstream media and it had all the stories of kids supposedly coming out as transgender. The Left uses these stories to try to pull on heart strings. But a closer look reveals that the kids are leading the parents and not the parents leading the kids. So this influenced me to let go of moral anchors and begin to go astray.
Satan’s dark web was being put around my soul to eclipse my manhood. I had even heard of wrong interpretations redefining Leviticus 18 where it condemns LBGT, and Deuteronomy where it condemns cross-dressing. I needed help.
So God Knocked
I was reading the Seventh-gay Adventist Newsletter one day and a Voice spoke to me saying, “What are they Doing?” I felt conviction that this isn’t right which I would later ignore and continue doing my own thing.
God Kept on Knocking
I eventually left that university and went to a two year college and took a Microbiology course. During that course I again heard the gentle voice of God when I was reading about reproduction in the things of nature. I knew that LGBT wasn’t right.
Then I had a friend who de-transitioned. He became normal again, renouncing his previous moral confusion. This influenced me and my thinking as well. Then I learned he was baptized as a SDA.
God spoke through various circumstances, a still small voice. I heard the voice of conviction and Scripture and also the gift of the Spirit of Prophecy. Truth began to be clear.
I saw that God's order has been reversed, and His special directions disregarded by those who adopt the culture.
I was referred to Deuteronomy 22:5:
"The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God."
God would not have His people adopt the so-called reform dress. It is immodest apparel, wholly unfitted for the modest, humble followers of Christ {1T 421.2}.
There is an increasing tendency to have women in their dress and appearance as near like the other sex as possible, and to fashion their dress very much like that of men, but God pronounces it abomination.
"In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety." 1 Timothy 2:9. {1T 421.3}
The same thing applies to men cross dressing as well!
Those who feel called out to join the movement in favor of woman's rights and the so-called dress reform might as well sever all connection with the third angel's message. The spirit which attends the one cannot be in harmony with the other. The Scriptures are plain upon the relations and rights of men and women. Spiritualists have, to quite an extent, adopted this singular mode of dress. Seventh-day Adventists, who believe in the restoration of the gifts, are often branded as spiritualists. Let them adopt this costume, and their influence is dead. The people would place them on a level with spiritualists and would refuse to listen to them. {1T 421.4}
So I surrendered to God…God spoke what are they doing? years before this. I rebelled and did secret sins but now today I have put away the strange gods of LGBT and decide to follow my Savior. God has forgiven me and I am sorry to Him for the time I wasted.
Overcoming
One day I was tempted to go back to old patterns and it was within my grasp to do it. I decided to sing to GOD and pray…and Resist the devil! God gave me the strength to resist Satan. It has been years now since I last cross-dressed. I give thanks to God for giving me strength and not leaving me during my time of apostasy but patiently calling me to repentance! During the many good years ahead I will be thankful to GOD who has helped me in the past, and continue to press forward against the assaults of Satan. Pray for me as a pray for you! Peace!
To anyone struggling, GOD is sympathetic and compassionate. Let him in! To the former Adventist Missionary please turn back to GOD. Don’t follow your own ideas when they contradict the word of GOD!
People can change. GOD will change you if you let him in.
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Chris