A New Race of People

Many of my closest friends are blessed with more melanin in their skin than me. Though I pale in comparison to them, they love me just the same. We’ve learned to look beyond ethnicity to what’s really important. God’s overwhelming love for us all.

Satan works to divide us by race. Jesus came to destroy the devil’s work. Man’s well meaning, outward attempts to end racial division fall short. The need is for an inside job. Enter the Holy Spirit!

Racism and segregation exist wherever people focus on skin color. “Man looks at the outward appearance. God looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7

God not only looks at the heart, He transforms it. Racism has no place in the heart of a true Christ follower. The Holy Spirit teaches us no one is better than another. In fact, He even enables us to think of others as better than ourselves! Any notion of racial supremacy dies at the cross. Christ’s supremacy is now our glorious obsession.

As educators, politicians and the media sow division by magnifying racial identity, every believer’s job is to magnify our new identity in Christ.

“In this new creation life, your nationality makes no difference, nor your ethnicity, education, nor economic status—they matter nothing. For it is Christ that means everything as he lives in every one of us!” Colossians‬ ‭3‬:‭11‬ TPT

The more secure we become in our identity in Christ, the less we focus on skin color. The only colors that should matter to us are red and white. Red, being the blood of Christ that washes us whiter than snow.

That’s a white privilege we can all enjoy the benefits of.

“For Christ himself has brought peace to us. He united Jews and Gentiles into ONE PEOPLE when, in his own body on the cross, he broke down the wall of hostility that separated us. He did this by ending the system of law with its commandments and regulations. He made peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself ONE NEW PEOPLE from the two groups. Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death on the cross, and our hostility toward each other was put to death.” ‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭2‬:‭14‬-‭16‬ ‭NLT‬‬ (emphasis mine)

“And He has made from ONE BLOOD every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth.” Acts 17:26 ‬‬ (emphasis mine)

Thank You Jesus for Your shed blood that unites us. Help us to live as one new race of people. A chosen race!

“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.” 1 Peter‬ ‭2‬:‭9‬-‭10‬ ‭ESV‬‬