Aug
29
Dividing People
Filed Under Devotional
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who can read binary and those who can’t.
This old joke still elicits chuckles with computer geeks like myself. (For those still stumped, 10 is the binary representation for 2). There are others in my sphere of acquaintances who have the bad habit of dividing people in other ways. There are the educated and uneducated. There are the liberals and conservatives. There are the rich and the poor. There are the normal people and the Jesus freaks. It goes on and on.
I, for one, am always annoyed with discussions that are based on dividing people according to race, sex, political orientation, etc. I don’t think any of those things are the most important thing about a person. I don’t think we can have an honest discussion about people if we need to boil them down to some arbitrary grouping so we can pigeonhole them and treat them like everyone in the group is the same.
I think there is only one worthwhile way to divide people: saved and unsaved. That’s the only quality that will matter as we head into eternity.
“For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.” Galatians 3:26-29
We are all one in Christ Jesus. None of those classifications should divide us now, but we should be willing to point out the divide between the unsaved and the saved. We should not do it to brag or act superior, but to do everything we can to help others hear the truth and save them from an eternity of separation.
Nothing else is more important.