Born This Way-A Sinner

"Born This Way"- Lady GaGa




It doesn't matter if you love him, or capital H-I-M
Just put your paws up


'cause you were Born This Way, Baby
My mama told me when I was young
We are all born superstars

She rolled my hair and put my lipstick on
In the glass of her boudoir

"There's nothing wrong with loving who you are"
She said, "'Cause he made you perfect, babe"

"So hold your head up girl and you'll go far,
Listen to me when I say"

I'm beautiful in my way
'Cause God makes no mistakes
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way

Don't hide yourself in regret
Just love yourself and you're set
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way


Oh there ain't no other way
Baby I was born this way
Baby I was born this way
Oh there ain't no other way
Baby I was born-
I'm on the right track, baby
I was born this way

Don't be a drag -Just be a queen
Don't be!

Give yourself prudence
And love your friends
Subway kid, rejoice your truth

In the religion of the insecure
I must be my self, respect my youth

A different lover is not a sin
Believe capital H-I-M (Hey hey hey)
I love my life I love this record and
Mi amore vole fe yah (Love needs faith)


Don't be a drag, just be a queen
Whether you're broke or evergreen
You're black, white, beige, chola descent
You're Lebanese, you're orient
Whether life's disabilities
Left you outcast, bullied, or teased
Rejoice and love yourself today
'cause baby you were born this way

No matter gay, straight, or bi,
lesbian, transgendered life,
I'm on the right track baby,
I was born to survive.
No matter black, white or beige
Chola or orient made,
I'm on the right track baby,
I was born to be brave.


I was born this way hey!
I was born this way hey!
I'm on the right track baby
I was born this way hey!

I was born this way hey!
I was born this way hey!
I'm on the right track baby
I was born this way hey! 
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So the first outing and I go with Lady GaGa.  Like I said, they won't be typical.  This song basically glorifies being exactly who you are with no restraint, no regrets, and no remorse.  Everyone was born their own special way and "God makes no mistakes" so just live your life and be happy.  
There are parts of this song that are actually theologically sound.  God really doesn't make mistakes when He makes people, He has crafted us from birth(Psalm 139) to be exactly like we are supposed to be, down to our thoughts and flaws.  The problem with this is that He is now working with contaminated equipment, our sinful flesh.  When Adam and Eve chose to disobey God, she sentenced man to a life lived completely in sin.  God had planned for our lives to be easy, for us to have full access to the entire Earth, stewards made in His image that would reside on Earth and be chief over His creation, answerable to Him.  We messed that up and God punished us by causing us to have to work for our food and for women to have pain during childbirth, along with many other problems for mankind and the Earth itself (Genesis 3).  
So now we're created as sinful creatures, born of Adam and Eve and forced to bear the curse God called on them.  We are born this way, we have no choice but to be sinful.  No one is without sin (Ecclesiastes 7:20, Romans 3:10).  It doesn't matter how good of a person you are or how drastic your sin might be;  if you never curse, never drink, and waited until you were married to have sex but you take personal pride in that or are currently having sex out of marriage while shooting up heroin while uttering a curse word every other sentence, you are a sinner.  There is no good or bad sin, it's all sin to God and it cannot be in His presence so we cannot be in His presence.  God creates us in our mother's womb, but we are born sinners into a fallen world that will eventually be wiped away, as will our sinful selves.  But there is an out, a way we can be forgiven, and it's through the only perfect human, who was also God incarnate, Jesus.  
Jesus was born of a woman immaculately, perfectly clean, without sin.  This was accomplished by Jesus being God, who is incapable of sin, as well as man, so He could redeem mankind by being the perfect sacrifice for our sins.  Prior to Christ, the only way to achieve any kind of cleanliness was to make sacrifices at the temple, but Jesus would be the first and only perfect sacrifice, and His death on the cross was the price to cover the whole world's sin.  We are all still born sinners, but now we have a way out, confessing our sins and proclaiming Jesus Christ as our lord and Savior.  1 John 1:9 says that if we confess our sins, God forgives us and purifies us from all unrighteousness.  
The moment you proclaim Jesus as your Lord and Savior, you are completely forgiven of all your past, present, and future sins.  God knows what we've done, what we are doing, and what we will do, so He is able to look at these sins and instead of seeing us as guilty sinners deserving death, He sees His son's blood covering our failures.  It doesn't matter if your biggest sin in life is one curse word a year or if you've been living life as a homosexual for fifteen years, you will be forgiven, no if's, and's or but's.  The only thing God asks in return is for your devotion to Him, which is shown through or changed life.  God desires us to serve Him with our lives, and we should also desire to serve because of our gratitude for His forgiveness(Romans 12:1).  This doesn't mean we won't sin again, nor does it mean we are free to continue sinning once we ask for forgiveness. We are meant to repent of our sinful ways and run full speed towards God.  He made us, He knows our faults, and if we trust Christ as our Lord and Savior, He forgives us. 
So Lady GaGa has some good points in this song.  It doesn't matter who we are, God made us as He wanted to make us, but we are all born sinners.  The only way to receive forgiveness for our sins is to trust Christ as our Savior.  Once we receive Christ, we are called to repent of our sinful nature and follow God.


I sincerely hope you enjoyed reading that, but beyond the enjoyment, I hope you got something out of it.  If it touched you in some way, or you have any other questions, feel free to leave a comment.  If I can help you personally I will, but if I can't I will put you in touch with someone who can.  


Love in Christ