Understanding

Years ago I read the following. I have no idea who wrote it, but I like the message. It is, after all, the truth. It would be a better world if everyone believed it.

A little girl, three years old, was riding in a taxi with her mother when she pointed to the black driver and asked, “Mommy, why is he so black?” The woman noticed the man’s shoulders stiffen at the question. She hastily searched for the right words that would satisfy both the driver and her daughter. She said, “God makes people as He makes flowers in the garden, so the world will be more colorful and beautiful. Some are white, some are brown, some black, some yellow, and all shades in between. That makes all of us the more interesting to look at, don’t you think?” The little girl nodded, for this made sense.

As they left the cab the black driver said to the woman, “Ma’am, when my little girl gets big enough to ask why some people are white, I know now what to tell her. Thank you!”

The woman was wise

She created light instead of darkness, and trust instead of suspicion. She thought too much of her daughter’s soul, the black man’s soul, and her own soul, to show prejudice. Let us show love instead of prejudice. If the Lord will accept all people without partiality, we have no choice but to do the same (Acts 10:34-35).

God is color blind, and so are His people

Jesus certainly demonstrated this in the course of His ministry. People were people. Everyone was to be treated with respect and dignity. Jesus reached out to sinners, immortalized Samaritans, embraced lepers, healed the diseased, elevated women, and died for humanity (John 3:16). As His people we must reach out to others with the same love and compassion. After all, in the eyes of God, we are all His offspring (Acts 17:28).