All Equal in God’s Eyes

1 Samuel  30:9-25

Whoever said we are all created equal may have meant well, but its simply not true. Some men are strong and others not so much. Some are very smart while others are average. Some have great looks while others may be less attractive. So no, we are not all equal—at least not from a physical/mental/emotional  standpoint.

David and his men marched for 6 days before finding their homes destroyed and their people taken and then, a day of fast marching/running to try and catch up to them. Scripture tells us 200 of David’s men couldn’t go on and stayed behind with the baggage.  When the other 400 found and defeated the enemy, they retrieved everything plus a vast treasure of captured goods.

When David reunited with his troops who were left guarding the baggage, a group of his men decide they don’t want to share the spoils. This is how God refers to them in 30:24, “wicked and worthless fellows”.  The men who stayed behind didn’t “quit” because they were lazy, they were simply at their ends. The others who were blessed with the ability to go on and do battle—some, not all—looked down on their brothers as not worthy or not good enough to share in the victory.

1 Corinthians 12:20-25

No one part of the body, no individual, is more valuable in Gods economy than any other. We are all precious and wired exactly as God intended. If the 200 men had not stayed behind at the river, they would all have had to carry their own baggage which could have slowed them down and not allowed them to overtake the enemy. By staying back, those men allowed the others to do what they needed to do. Wicked and worthless are Gods words to describe those who would look down on His creation—on His redeemed in Christ.

Its not always easy to consider all our brothers as equals—but it is what God has called us to do.      

Father, help me to embrace all my brothers as you do us in Christ. Amen  — Steve Schmidt writes weekly for Freedom Fighter and serves full-time at America’s Keswick

Daily Bible Reading: Psalm 74-76; Acts 21:1-26

Quote of the day: Each of us has a splendid site for a heavenly temple. It looks out upon

eternity and commands a view of all that is glorious in the possibilities of existence. The house that is built upon it now, however, is a worthless wreck, it is past improving. Our patching and repairing is worse than waste. What God wants of us is simply that we

give him the possibilities of our lives and let him build upon them a temple of holiness which he will make his own abode and which he will let us dwell in with him as his happy guests in the house of the Lord forever. A. B. Simpson

Verse to Memorize: I cry out to the Lord with my whole heart; Hear me, O Lord! I will keep your statutes. I cry out to You; save me and I will keep your testimonies. Psalm 119:145-146