No Dream Apart from Christ

"From ONE MAN HE MADE EVERY NATION OF MEN, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live (Acts 17:26)." From God's perspective there is only one race, the human race. Separating ourselves based on skin color is the creation of man fueled by our sinful and fallen nature. From God's perspective He only sees Jew, Gentile and the Church, made up of Jews and Gentiles. Furthermore, He sees only those spiritually dead to Him in sin or those who are spiritually alive to Him in Christ. There will be no unity amongst mankind apart from coming to faith in Jesus Christ."There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all ONE IN CHRIST JESUS (Gal 3:28)." I think it safe to say there is neither black, white, brown, red nor yellow as well.

As Christians our identity is as children of God (John 1:12). That is an identity that will never change. As long as we insist on identifying ourselves by what makes us different, and demand being identified by that difference, we will never see the dream of Martin Luther King, Jr. realized. As long as we see ourselves as African-American, White-American, Latino-American and so forth there won't be unity. As long as we keep putting faith in our Catholicism or Protestantism (or non Christian faiths) and even humanism there will be no unity. No amount of marching, protesting, tolerance, political correctness or changing of laws will ever change the human heart. The only way to truly effect change is through an encounter with Jesus Christ. When He changes your heart your behavior will follow and the dream will be realized. Be blessed.