I recently saw a TV show on white nationalism. Having OCD, I haven’t been able to get it out of my head. It made me think about the fallacy in movements like that one. Even in areas where people are almost all the same race, people find some other way to divide themselves. Either they divide themselves by ethnicity, religion, social class, or some other marker. There’s always some way someone will find some way to distinguish themselves from others in order to say that they are superior.
It just isn’t the way of God. On the night of the Last Supper, when the apostles arrived, Jesus got down on His hands and knees. He washed their feet. He was the embodiment of God on earth and yet He washed their feet. This act shows that no one man is ever better than any other; we are all equal in the eyes of God.
And if that isn’t enough proof, then death is the great equalizer. It doesn’t matter who you are, your race, religion, ethnicity, gender, or class. Every single one of us is going to die and there’s nothing any of us can do to escape that fate.
So instead of wasting the precious time we have trying to figure out how we are different, shouldn’t we be focusing on how we are the same?
My faith saved me. May God’s peace reside in all of our hearts.
