Friday!

Proverbs!

The rich and the poor meet together; 

the Lord is the Maker of them all.

Proverbs 22:2 ESV

When we meet other people, so often we focus on what is different, we put people in categories because of what they do, what they drive, where they live. We attach labels based on how they look, what they wear, their family (or lack of one), where they've come from, but this proverb jolts us into challenging that first, foundationally, we are all God's creation.

Those things that would hold us apart, keep us apart, are our social constructs, our way of valuing people, not who we are before our Maker, not recognising how He values people.

Whether I'm looking "up" at someone, or tempted to look "down" on someone, this wee proverb encourages me, encourages us, to look as God does.

And the best way to do that is to follow Jesus, to see others as he did. 

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