Romans 3:21-28 - by Don Neuendorf
"There is no difference..." It's interesting to think of those words in light of what we see around us. My eldest son, James, has been participating in a journalism institute in New York. On his blog he has been describing the wide and fascinating variety of people he meets in the big city. An artist in the park with a Russian accent, a gift store clerk who is a sherpa from Nepal, a street cleaner from Peru, a homeless woman from Bosnia...
Could these people all be the same? "No difference"?
In the important things, yes. All the differences we see are inconsequential. Age and height and coloring, clothing and taste and accent, the nice things in their homes or the lack of them, these things count for nothing.
But all these men and women, and all the teeming multitudes in New York and here in Ann Arbor suffer from the same deadly disease. Sin. And all have the same solution. "...and are justified freely by [God's] grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus."
How would your work - or your relationships with the people around you today - change, if you remembered that you are the same?