RECENTLY I HAD ONE OF MY FAVORITE CONVERSATIONS on the topic of (what else?) people. This one was specifically about the different types of people and how we all deserve respect.

NOTE: I must always, always proclaim this: I love God first and foremost and am willing to have anyone hate me or persecute me if they demand I put them first! (Duh! I say with a great big, snarky smile!)  I love people because first and foremost: God has commanded me to!

Selah

AND HE IS NEVER WRONG!

Beloved: once you know that loving a person and liking them are two different things it is easier with your soul. And as you grow in your walk with God you learn that God is great, God is good and it is not His will that any should perish! Amen! This is a no-brainer for the child of God…

Hence as a Christian woman (now of sixty-three years) I can proclaim to you: God is the Greatest Artist! He loves beauty! And that my friends, is exactly why God has created so many people with so much diversity: brown eyes, blue eyes, green eyes, hazel eyes. Blonde hair, red hair, white hair, black hair, brown hair. Curly hair, straight hair, thick hair, thin hair. Tall people, short people, shorter people. God loves us one and all!

John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

And:
We were made to look like Him:

Genesis 1:26-27
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So Go created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

MY BEAUTIFUL LITTLE DOLL didn’t look like me only in regard to eye colour, hair colour, skin colour. In every other way we were both beautiful little girls (one human and one made for play, of course.)

My hair was long, hers was short.
My hair was wavy, hers was curly.
My eyes are blue, hers are brown.
My skin was light, hers was dark.

We were both beautiful. I say “were” only because I’m still alive and my beautiful little doll hasn’t been seen since I was little, little. This is a beautiful memory for me. A memory which God, Himself, placed in my heart once upon a time. I must have been four years old, certainly not six or older. I wanted a black doll. The year would have been 1960. Does anyone remember how hard it was in those days to find a doll that wasn’t white? I do. I was so happy when we finally found one! And boy, was she pretty! She had black, short curly hair, dark, dark skin and beautiful brown eyes! She was just who I wanted! Her shoes were white and she wore a beautiful yellow dress that went so well with her colouring. She had a sweet little bow right in the middle of her hair! I will never forget that my mother and I went to a restaurant and I proudly set my new little doll on a chair right beside me!

What I really want you to know about my beautiful little doll is this: God put in my soul a deep and respectful love for people from all the ethnicities. As I have grown in age and wisdom I realize this love is a gift from God. I also am very joyful to announce to you that when anyone says anything to me against a certain type of person that’s said with a racial hatred I will not be silent! And when I was called a racist; I got the last word for that is one of the tags people dare not put on me.

Selah.

Again, as I have said before, you cannot be a child of God and think that you are superior to anyone else. To Hell with that demonic theology. Devil be damned (and he will!) And a stern warning to all those who hate someone: you have not the love of God…

SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS FOR THIS JOY STORY

Matthew 22:35-40
One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

1 John 3:11-16
For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous. Do not be surprised, my brothers and sisters, if the world hates you.  We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love each other. Anyone who does not love remains in death.  Anyone who hates a brother or sister is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life residing in him. This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters.