It’s Friday…It’s All About Grace

It’s the 250^th birthday of the United States of America. But unity would be a difficult commodity to find in our country today. Our priceless and costly freedom is having a hard time keeping us together.

For some reason we humans have all sorts of ways of dividing ourselves, don’t we? In some cultures, there is an overt, recognizable caste system. In others, it is much more subtle. The western world, for example, tends to classify people in terms of economic status, race, or skill level. We’ll do nearly anything to define ourselves in tight, distinguishable groups.

There’s nothing wrong with identifying with a group of like-minded or similar-background people. The problem comes when we attribute relative worth to our different groups. We get hung up on ideology and education, pedigree and ancestry, or spending power and net worth. There’s a reason Wall Street barons and welfare mothers don’t usually hang out together, and it’s not just because they have little in common.

Our sociology is not just an accident. We like our class distinctions, and we want to keep them.

“Lowborn men are but a breath, the highborn are but a lie; if weighed on a balance, they are nothing; together they are only a breath.” (Psalm 62:9)

We are naturally divisive, but the Kingdom of God makes no such distinctions. We who believe in Him will all commune together at the throne. When members of every tribe and nation meet together to praise Him, there will be no borders between them. When rich and poor are gathered in His name, there will be no first-class section. The kingdom of God knows only one species of human beings: His Children.

If the Kingdom of God in heaven looks like a united fellowship of saints, should the Kingdom of God on earth look pretty similar? The Psalmist was right: In God’s eyes, there is no difference between lowborn and the highborn. 

Centuries later, Jesus’ teaching would make only one distinction – between the born again, those who have given their lives to Him and the lost, those who have kept their lives for themselves. Only one kind of birth matters in His Kingdom, and it has nothing to do with pedigree. It’s All About Grace, right now, here in this world. So are we, if we believe in Him.

Have a grace-filled and freedom-loving weekend Make it better by worshiping The Lord with those who honor His Word to be one, to be united, because one day we will see first-hand what that looks like.

All For Jesus – Nothing More, Nothing Less, Nothing Else.

“He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, The King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see, to Him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.” (1 Timothy 6:15b-16)