God Doesn’t Have Favorites
Word-Of-The-Day: ‘<God said to Moses,>“Do not pervert justice; do not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.”’ (Leviticus 19:15); ‘For God does not show favoritism.’ (Romans 2:11)
God does not have favorites; God loves everyone equally. Paul in Romans 2 provides that good and evil will be judged equally between the Jew and the Gentile. While the Jews are the chosen people, God’s plan is for the Gentiles to be grafted into the Jewish tree, so we are seen as being the same in His eyes.
This impartiality also is implied between man-made social castes; the poor and the rich are equal. Democrats and Republicans are equal. All races are equal. ‘Long-hairs’ and ‘short-hairs’ are equal. Inequality and the judgements based on those perceptions are man-made, and when we see discrimination, we see something that is not of God but of man. Between sexes, the differences between man and women are made to be complimentary; men have the role of leadership, provision, and defense, while women have the role of childbearing, caretaking and support. Their roles can overlap when needed but women are to walk with men, and vice versa. Any change in this (feminism in the West or female servitude in the Middle East) is from man and not from God.
Today, we see in secular society those who scream equity the most, want equality the least. The movements toward censorship of Godly opinions, promotion of ‘woke’ activities over Righteous ones, and the illogical desire to separate by race (after years of working on integration) increase inequality and the stressors that come with that. Jesus came to remove those stressors and to remove the inequalities. He talked to both the Jew and the Gentile and the rich and the poor. The Apostles, who were Jewish but were made of both poor (fishermen) and rich (tax collector) went throughout the world, from Spain to India and beyond to witness to all people regardless of race. Paul witnessed to many groups including the Romans, who were subjugating the Jews in his time.
God’s judgement for us will be impartial, though it will be a time of separation between people. His equality of love does not provide an equity of outcomes, as the outcomes are derived by individual choice. This will not be due to anything in terms of man’s term of separation, but it will be man-derived; everyone will be judged on the criteria on whether one accepts Jesus as Lord and Savior, repenting of their sins and asking for forgiveness. It is up to each person to accept or deny Christ, and those who accept His Salvation will live with Him eternally. Those who do not will be separated from God eternally. All people will be treated equally based on this criterion with no partiality or favoritism shown.
