In our country there is a need for racial healing. I believe that the Lord is the answer for this. In New Testament times there was a need for a similar healing between Jew and Gentile. That divide was just as strong as the racial fracture in our country. The apostle Paul has a message that speaks to healing this kind of divide:
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Ephesians 2: 14 For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility 15 by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, 16 and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.
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There are some issues that we have great difficulty resolving in our own strength. It is as if we are too close, or too involved, or too much a part of the issue. I believe that the answer when large people-groups are at odds between themselves is to look up to the one who has resolved the differences between Himself and all men.
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Jesus said (quoted from book of John, chapter 12): 32 "And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."
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If we, together, lift up and look at Jesus He will draw "all people" across the greatest divide....and I believe we will realize that there truly are no differences between us...and He will "kill the hostility" by making "one body" of us all.
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What we cannot do in our own strength, He specializes in through His.
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"For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility"
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much love,
Rob Smith
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"Death is inevitable. Life is a choice!"
John 11:25
Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live."
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