We are often tempted to consider ourselves better than those who are different from us. We tend to look down on people who have eyes, hair, lips, and skin not like our own. This attitude of superiority is racial prejudice. It stems from pride and lack of trust.
Pride tells us that the way we look is the only "right" way to look. Lacking trust in God, we feel threatened by those who are different from us. God's answer to such attitudes is found in John 3:16: "``For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. " To us God says if a man is a new creature in Christ, he is a brother to every other Christian. If a man has never trusted in Christ, his is a mission field--a lost soul to be won to the Lord. Let us never permit the sin of racial prejudice to blind us to our brothers and sisters in the Lord or to our duty to spread the Gospel to everyone.
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