True Equality

When I was much younger I heard a local radio station  advertising for an account manager position at its station. At the end of the ad the voice said, "We are both and equal opportunity and an affirmative action employer."

So, what' s wrong with that? It all sounds right. Think about it for a minute.

Their statement is completely impossible! You can be one or the other, but you can't be both.

Lots of people and companies are trying to please all of the people all of the time. Abraham Lincoln knew that.

"You can please some of the people some of the time, all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can never please all of the people all of the time." - Abraham Lincoln

We live in a people-pleasin' society where everyone wants to give each other a participation trophy. It seems all warm and fuzzy when the fat kid down the street gets one of those feel-good trophies at a track meet in the 100-yard dash. Is that trophy really benefiting that kid?

Our problem in society is that we are trying to please the wrong people. We are trying to please each other when we should be trying to please God.

What if we gave a pass to a certain people group at a stop signs? How would that work? Look at our politicians in Washington. They make laws. But they only make them for us, not for themselves. Is THAT right? Congress gives out participation trophies . . . to themselves.

God doesn't give out participation trophies. He doesn't look at the color of your skin or give you a pass because you've had a hard life. God looks at our souls. Are we His? Or no? That's it. DO you know Jesus? Yes/No.

"For God does not show favoritism." - Romans 2:11

"For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility," - Ephesians 2:14

"For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality and accepts no bribes." - Deuteronomy 10:17

When I was in high school I remember watching Star Trek's Captain Kirk utter these words to a distant civilization that had somehow stumbled upon a copy of the United States Constitution. Kirk's words have stuck with me all these years. Good words. True words.

"These words, and the words that follow, are not written only for the Yangs but for the Comms as well. They must apply to everyone or they mean nothing! Do you understand?"

Captain Kirk's Constitutional Speech