FAIRNESS 3 - Treat everyone as important, not just rich people.

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Devotional Thoughts about James 2:1-9

As I’ve worked with groups of children over the years, I’ve been appalled now and then to see how cruel one can be to another. In their immaturity kids sometimes re­sort to crude methods to secure a place for themselves in the established hierarchy of their peers, and favoritism and exclusion are basic tools.

Although they’re resentful of teacher’s pets and others’ partiality, they scramble to wield the same weapon to jealously guard their own social assets in the precarious drama at school.

Of course adults show partiality, too, but usually with a veneer of sophistication. The truth is: we like some people more than we do others, and it shows. We act upon our preconceptions and sometimes even use them to manipulate others.

That God loves us all and is willing to accept anyone who comes to Him, is hard for us to grasp or truly believe because our sin nature is so grasping and self-centered.

Lord, please keep reminding me of Your “royal law” (James 2:8) and enable me to treat others as just as important as myself for Your glory. 

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