Galatians 3:26-28 -- On Worldly Distinctions and Oneness

"For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."
Galatians 3:26-28


I like the idea here that distinctions that are important to the world become unimportant before God. Not that God doesn't care about our individuality, but rather that the things that divide us... classes, ranks, distinctions of all sorts... become unimportant before the unity that we achieve by being the children of God. No one is excluded from that club; no one is lessened or made secondary. All of us, in Christ, are the same... we all need to repent and change and grow and prepare for eternity, and unified in that cause we can work to help each other towards that goal.

The closer we get to God, the further away those worldly differences are, and the less we need to play the parts given to us by society, and the more we can rejoice in the oneness given to us by God. People of different socio-economic groups, people of different and sometimes very strict gender roles, people whose ranks are very high and very low in certain societies... and so many more differences that can limit us in the world, we can let go of when we come before God. We can all come together, rejoice together, and let those barriers melt away as we worship and build each other up.

Today, let's do our best to let go of worldly biases and labels as we go before God and interact with his children. Who we are to God, as his children, is what matters, and we are all siblings in that. Part of each other, and he asks us to help each other to find our ways back to him.