God's Love is Colorblind

We've likely all seen the news today.  Or at least this week.  Someone was profiled in some way for being non-white.  We thought we were long past the days of segregation and apartheid.  But it turns out we were wrong.

It's sad to me that racial stereotypes live on.  It's sad that profiling based on the appearance of a person still happens.  It's sad that someone's gender will decide if he or she gets the job.  But it's the world we live in. 

Besides the fact that it makes you a huge jerk, do you know what's wrong with thinking this way?  That God doesn't make junk, and therefore none of us - created in His image - are junk, either.  He doesn't look on the woman and think, "Oh, poor, pitiful creature.  You don't deserve an income equivalent to your male counterpart."  And he doesn't look to the Muslim and think, "Well, you could've been one of mine, but you chose not to be so I guess it's cool if you never fly on a plane or enter a federal building ever again."  No.  Not at all.  God pursues all in the same way.  He looks at the faithful servant, the prodigal son, and the one who does not yet know Him with the same lens - a lens of loving grace.

See, the trouble with thinking that God can only love those who love Him is that we limit the amount and kind of love our God can provide.  And if we limit His love, we have made it virtually impossible that His son has paid the ultimate price for our sin, and Christianity falls apart.  God's love surpasses ours.  He sees each heart for what it was at creation - a work of His hands; at present; and in the future.  He sees the potential in each of us to do work for His kingdom.  He sees the amount of love we have to give.  He sees past our gender, our race, or even our faith.  Yes, God loves the faithful Muslim, the loyal Morman, and the religious Catholic all the same.  And if He can see past all of this in order to give us His love, why can we not do the same?

Or at the very least, why can we not stop hating each other for the things that God doesn't even see?  And if the Creator of the Universe isn't worried with it, then why should we be?