Challenging Racial Injustice
‘If you keep the royal law found in Scripture,
“Love your neighbour as yourself,” you are doing right.
But if you show favouritism, you sin,
and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers’
(James 2:8-9)
I once asked a Nigerian living in Australia whether he experienced discrimination.
‘Yes,’ he replied sadly, ‘people avoid sitting next to me in the bus’.
According to the Bible, all humans are made in the image of God and all part of the family of Adam and Eve.
It is so sad that we have the tendency to tribalism, to give poor treatment to those who look different
or speak in another language or come from a different social group. This is not what God wants of us
and as Christians we should lead the way in offering love to all.
We need to challenge racial injustice and to show by our own example
that all humans are equally precious in the eyes of God and so of his people.
Question for thought: Do I welcome strangers?
Heavenly Father, thank you for the many initiatives of Blackburn Diocese in the UK and pray
those they care for will know that you care for them even in the midst of their struggles and heartache.
Pray for our Mothers Union members in Armidale, as they face changes in Mothers Union leadership
– for people with godly character and specific gifts to come forward
and lead humbly in the footsteps of Jesus for the sake of Mothers Union.