Day 288 – God doesn’t look at us as different, He sees us all as His children.
Today’s Reading: Acts 9 – 11
Acts 11:1-3 “Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.”
Peter, a disciple of Jesus, an apostle to the world, a born Jew, knew the law of Moses and knew that the Jews were God’s chosen people. But Peter missed the Big picture that the Jews were chosen that through them salvation would come to the WHOLE world. A vision came to Peter of a blanket of all kinds of food, clean and unclean, all different, by the law unable to eat.
Acts 11:8-9 “But I said, ‘By no means, Lord; for nothing common or unclean has ever entered my mouth.’ But the voice answered a second time from heaven, ‘What God has made clean, do not call common.’”
Immediately, 3 men came to visit him, all Gentiles, and they asked him to come to them and tell them how to be saved. Peter went, ate with them and told them how to be saved, and the Holy Spirit fell on them and they were baptized.
Acts 11:17-18 “If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?” When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.”
We are all created different, even my twins are opposite in all fashions, but we were all created as children of God and for a specific purpose. We need to live in this way, not divided into different areas, but united by creation and salvation. Next time you feel the urge to see differences in this world, put on the lens of Christ’s love with the knowledge of His truth and be united by the one who has saved you and created you as His child.
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