Equal But Not Necessarily Equal

Good Morning

Socialism and communism have always been promoted by evil men.  The lie Satan tries to sell to mankind is that we would all enjoy equal prosperity if we all had the same material possession and opportunity.

What idiot could hear that lie and possibly consider it to be true?

I challenge anyone to go to any schoolyard and see how much actual equality is present.  Get off of your pity-party, racist equality issues and face reality.

As a first grader, I was told to draw a picture of the front of my school. I drew a big box with boxes inside (rooms), and then drew a few smaller boxes inside those boxes (to represent doors). I drew a straight line in front of the large box (the flag pole), and I put another box on the flagpole with some stripes on it (the flag).  That was the extent of my artistic ability. (Sorry, but that was the best I could do in the first grade.)  I looked at my friend’s paper and saw that his school box was three-dimensional.  He drew a flagpole with his flag waving in the wind.  I looked at my flag and my box and determined that all men are not created equal.

Get over it!  I am not an artist!  Fast forward to junior high basketball.  I was taller than most and found that I had a measure of coordination at six feet tall in the eighth grade.  I was comfortably athletic.  I played against a guy in the eighth-grade who was six-foot five!  He was a little intimidating, until we realized the guy could not walk and chew gum. We are not equal.

Fast forward again to high school graduation.   I had fairly good athletic statistics, and I was asked to visit one of the eight elite universities to spend a week with people that possessed far superior athletic abilities than myself.  Within five minutes of being on the court, I understood that in high school I was a big fish in a small small pond.  When I played with a university ball team, I became a very small fish.

We’re not created equal! Get over it!

Once a man is introduced to Christ, he realizes that God has a unique purpose and plan for every human being.  If we ignore our Creator, we deserve a depraved self-image.  The One who made us and purchased us with his own blood is the One Who knows how to give us a self-image and establish self-esteem.  On that level, there is equality.

Perfect equality is found in Calvary’s blood, in the love of God, and in the assurance that God made me for a reason – for His glory!

There is no way you can possibly imagine creating equality on this earth without God.  I could not read The Hardy Boys book in the sixth grade or the eighth grade, but I could work high school algebra problems in the eighth grade.  We are just not the same.  God made us different.  Until you get introduced to Jesus Christ, you will spend your life feeling inadequate.  Satan will be sure you look around at people who are taller, prettier, more athletic, or possess nicer hair, a better complexion, and smaller ears. (Perhaps they can even draw a waving flag on a flagpole in the first grade.)

But in Christ, All men are  equally loved by God with an equally important purpose, and an equally eternal and wonderful Heaven as their home.  We do not have an equality problem in America, we have a Sunday school problem. We have a group of idiot parents trying to make their children out to be better than others because they can play a piano, sing, shoot a ball, or are simply more attractive.  Forgetting that it was not we who made ourselves, but God made us.

Without God, you have a world of inequality, insecurity, and hurt.  But in Christ, all are loved and of infinite value!

You do not need to get over that, you just get in on it!

Pastor