Your epidermis is showing

T he single greatest tragedy in the history of America is the issue of racial strife.

Without the backbreaking, abusive, and unpaid work of people brought to this country as indentured servants and slaves such as the English, Italians, other Europeans, Chinese, Africans (and others) our country would be less than what we are.

There is only one race – the human race, and the human race has a wide variety of colors.

I often wonder the greater purpose God had in His plan when He “colored” the human race. Every person has “colored skin” caused by melanin, which is brown, yellow-brown, or black and is produced by melanocytes and skin color is genetically programmed. Your epidermis shows the amount of melanin in your genes.

This is not a choice humanity makes (at least not yet), it is decided by God, the Creator. The useless talk about “white privilege” has been perpetrated on Americans by lazy, hateful and deniers of God, who sit in their ivory towers, on their judging benches, and at their political desks pretending to do justice and selling “equality.”

Observation tells me that each shade of color has its burdens to carry in society.

Every person is made in the image of God and it was His Son, Jesus who died on the Cross for every person regardless of “color,” nationality, background, or culture and this makes every life matter!

There are no mistakes when it comes to human life.

There are no “surprises” or “oops.” God doesn’t make mistakes; in Jeremiah 1:5 we read, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you.”

Psalm 139:19 states, “For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.” In Ephesians 2:10, we read, “We are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.”

In God’s eyes, it matters not what color, tribe, country, language group or ability a person has – He created each one and each life has purpose and loved by God and Christ died for each and every life.

Instead of arguing and protesting our differences, our time and efforts are better spent discovering God’s purpose for each life. We have more in common than we have differences and our leaders should focus on our commonalities. This is especially true of religious leaders. God has given to all Believers the “… ministry of reconciliation” (2 Corinthians 5:18). We need the ministry of reconciliation alive and active in every church, school, and home!

God makes no distinction in His love, we read in Romans 10:12 “For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him.” Friends, at the center, all people are equal in God’s sight and God obviously values variety in His creation.

There is a verse from a song from the Christian group DC Talk (a rap song) that states; “Society has gotten to be all outta whack, And don’t bother with excuses whether white or black, To blame it on a color won’t get a result, Because history reveals to me how ethics were lost, In reality our decency has taken a plunge, “In God We Trust” is an American pun, Funny how it happened so suddenly …” “Something’s missing, and if you’re asking me, I think that something is the G-O-D.”

Clayton Adams, West Memphis, Arkansas. Email: claytonpadamslll@gmail.com.

Clayton Adams

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