Love - "If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." 1 Corinthians 13:1-7 NRSV
Read these verses over and over, then ask yourself this simple question, "How can, a person who is living in God's perfect love have any room for bigotry?"
Today it seems as if all we see are groups of people seeking to build walls, claiming superiority over all others for all different kinds of evil purposes.
They are all, in a sense, calling God a liar.
And how are they calling God a liar you ask?
By denying The Word of God as found in Genesis 1:27 GNB "Thus God created the man in his image: in the image of God created he him: he created them male and female."
By insisting that their group is better than others or that they are owed something by others and thereby rejecting The Truth found in 2 Thessalonians 3:6-12 NRSV "Now we command you, beloved, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from believers who are living in idleness and not according to the tradition that they received from us. For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us; we were not idle when we were with you, and we did not eat anyone’s bread without paying for it; but with toil and labor we worked night and day, so that we might not burden any of you. This was not because we do not have that right, but in order to give you an example to imitate. For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: Anyone unwilling to work should not eat. For we hear that some of you are living in idleness, mere busybodies, not doing any work. Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living."
By rejecting the truth of God's Word in favor of a lie and demanding that others be forced to affirm their perversions.
Do you claim The Cross of Jesus The Christ?
Then you need to get out of the mindset of the worldly, those who teach the nonsense of "racial purity" or superiority.
All have been created by God and therefore equal. Some may be deceived by lies of evil leaders teaching falsehoods and need guided to the foot of The Cross where all can find forgiveness, if they truly want to.
Confession and repentance will be rewarded with God's great mercy and grace. Forgiveness is available to all, but do not think you can enjoy the grace of God while living in an unrepentant lifestyle. "Do not be deceived; God is not mocked, for you reap whatever you sow. If you sow to your own flesh, you will reap corruption from the flesh; but if you sow to the Spirit, you will reap eternal life from the Spirit. So let us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up. So then, whenever we have an opportunity, let us work for the good of all, and especially for those of the family of faith." Galatians 6:7-10 NRSV
There will be no escaping God's wrath if you choose to deny His truth. But, my friends, there is hope. You can be forgiven, you can find God's great grace and mercy. Freedom from sins and hope is found only in Jesus Christ the Son of God and the work He completed on the cross. But you have to ask and accept. You have to trust and believe that His work is complete and sufficient.
If you need help, just ask.


This weeks reading: Psalm 73