Do you feel like others look down you? Do you look down on others? Have you realized you are equal to everyone else and everyone else is equal to you? Do you know that we all are the same in the eyes of God? Have you allowed that to sink into your heart and mind?
This world is full of people who think they are better than others. Many of them are in our workplaces, schools, and other organizations. Unfortunately, some of them are in our churches. But God does not see any one of us as being better than another.
We all agree we are sinners and need God’s grace. We all agree that Jesus died for each one of us. Yet, we often look at others as being less than we are. How unfortunate. Not only for them but for ourselves as well. We lose out on getting to know many people, who God created, by thinking we are better than others.
The Apostle Paul tells us that because we are all baptized into Christ, we are all clothed the same, that being in Christ. We are all same in God’s eyes. It doesn’t matter our race, gender, nor our occupation. God uses those qualities and skills to further his work on earth. After all, he is the one who gave them to us. Yet, we are not to use them to think we are better than those with different qualities. See one another as equals and seek to learn something from one another.
I pray we all know that we are the same in God’s eyes. I pray we know that God uses our differences to further his work. I pray each one of us stop thinking we are better than others. We are all the same in God’s eyes. God uses our differences. Stop looking down on others.
Galatians 3:27-28 As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek; there is no longer slave or free; there is no longer male and female, for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.
Marty Pressey 