You Ain't Black

 

If you have trouble deciding if you're for me or Trump...then you ain't black! 

Joe Biden 

For some time I've wondered just what we Christians have been thinking.  Many profess that they are indeed children of the One true God, yet when we look upon those around us we seem to lose that realization.  Somehow, we seem to think that we're the only game in town.  So much so, that we categorize others in regards to their appearance instead of who they are in the Father.  We have taken to referring to it as race relations, but we might as well call it what it is...our own disregard for others.  In America, one political party has made a career out of race mongering and baiting.  They are the Democrats.  Some time ago, president Joe Biden was heard on a podcast proclaiming, "If you have trouble deciding if you're for me or Trump...then you ain't black!"  The audience Joe was targeting was obviously the American African American voter.  It was simply the latest episode of Democrat race baiting.  Then I think, are we supposed to view the people of this world through the eyes of some political minded hack, or see them for who they truly are in the Lord?  I think that the answer to that question is pretty obvious.  The scriptures proclaim to us that we are indeed children of the Lord {Paul To The Galatians 3:26, The First Epistle Of John 3:1}.  However, we also cannot escape the truth that it is the Father who has created us in His very image {Genesis 1:27}.  In fact, when the Father breathed into His creation the breath of life, the ONLY distinction He proclaimed of His creation was that they were male and female {Genesis 1:27}.  God did not create the African American in His image, He did not specify that the Chinese were created in His image.  NO, we're told that MAN was created in the Fathers image!  That means all of us, including those around us.  I agree with Joe Biden on just one point, those who do not vote for him ain't black...they're children of the God!  

Perceive what manner of love the Father has given us, that we may be called children of God!  And we are!  Therefore the world does not know us, for it did not know Him.

First Epistle Of John 3: 1, Concordant New Testament 

Can you imagine the backlash if a political candidate campaigned on a platform of seeking the votes of all of Gods children?  Yet, each and every election cycle that is exactly what they are doing!  The apostle John proclaims that the world does not recognize us as such because it did not know Him {First Epistle Of John 3:1}.  I get it.  In a world that seldom knows the Father, it cannot know of His children either.  The way I see it, far too many so called Christians fall right into the racial trap.  We see others for the color of their skin, completely disregarding who they are in the Lord.  I've been guilty of that myself.  The late Reverend Martin Luther King famously proclaimed that one day men would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.  I would take that a step further and say that we should not judge others at all, but see them as who they are in the Lord.  Of course, then I would be seen as the radical.  So it is that because the world did not know the Father, that they do not recognize the Father in themselves or those around them.  So, how is it that we can preach to those around us to see others as children of God when we ourselves continue to categorize the children of God on the basis of color?  Therefore, I view politics not through the lens of the people who cast their votes, but of a profession of differing ideas.  I guess I ain't black after all.  

~Scott~