Equal Ground

So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.  There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. - Galatians 3:26-28

The idea expressed by this verse is that God sees everyone as who they are apart from their physical body.  Therefore, no person has a title, possession, gender, ethnicity or color.  They have a spirit, a soul, their own essence or "heart" as it is commonly referred as in Scripture.  I believe this is all that God sees in each of us when He looks upon us.  The more I read about what Jesus did and what He said the more convinced I am that His singular focus was each person's relational condition to God and nothing else.  We would do well to follow in His focus and be sensitive to His Spirit in us to listen and feel what He tells us regarding those around us so that we might know how to minister to them.

I remember learning this nursery rhyme when I was a child:

Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world
Red and yellow, black and white
They are precious in His sight
Jesus loves the little children of the world

I always thought this simple message in a children's nursery rhyme was profound.  We are all His children.  We are all precious in His sight.  He loves us all as His children.  Three very significant concepts that most adults have a hard time accepting. 

Reverend Siglar says, "We are all beggars at the foot of the Cross."  And as other ministers have said, "The ground is level at Calvary."  No single person stands even a hair taller or shorter than another; no single person has any more significance than another; no single person looks any more appealing than another; no single person is any closer or farther away than another; but all are on equal ground before God with His open invitation to join Him and accept His love.  The only distinguishing difference among people is that some accept the invitation and some reject it.