Jesus: The Antidote To Inequality
Food for thought
In Year 1, Emma and Tochi earn $40,000 each. Emma chooses to spend hers on things she enjoys without making any investments, while Tochi chooses to invest $2,000 in a bond that gives 0.5% interest per year. Suppose they both have a balance of $700 by January of the following year. Tochi has $700 plus her return on investment, which is $2,710, making her financial state better off than Emma's. Would you say they were unequal?
Inequality is the difference in social
status, wealth, or opportunity between people or groups.
There are different types of inequality,
gender, race, age, class, financial, etc.
It is caused by different reasons, circumstances, and the choices we make are not excluded.
No matter how much we try to make everyone
equal, unfortunately, that is unrealistic because no two people are the same.
Biblical perspective
Before Jesus died, although God loved us
the same, we didn't all have the right and means to access Him because there was sin in us. It was either always the prophets or those who choose to consecrated themselves to Him that He chose to reveal Himself to,
like Abraham (Genesis
18:16-33). There was no substitute
for sin, especially for none Jews, who didn’t even know or abide by the laws of
God.
Oneness
in Christ
The great
news is that right now, in the kingdom of God it is not the same.
Because of Jesus’s sacrifice, God sees us all as one, he shows no favouritism. Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favouritism.” (Acts 10:34 )
This is because the blood of Jesus, who was
innocent, speaks on our behalf (Hebrews 12: 23-25).
How amazing to know that despite all that we have done, once we ask for forgiveness God can still use us to achieve his purpose as he used Jesus who is sinless.
He is a just God (1 John 1:9, John 3:16, Psalm 91:1, and Deuteronomy 10:17).
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It means that, regardless of your skin color, financial status, age, or class, God still loved you so
much to send his son down to die for you.
I promise you, if it were only, you on this
earth, God would still send Jesus down just for you.
In the
world, inequality might be because of both the choices people make and circumstances they find themselves in, like Emma and Tochi.
But in this kingdom, we are all one in Christ.
One may
wonder, if God sees us all as equals, then why did he favor certain people in
the bible?
God’s Favor
God has no favorites, but he can choose to favor people (Romans 9:15).
But the truth is that you can attract God's favor.
A father may love all his children equally, but that one child who listens and does as he says, He would surely favor.
Abraham was a man favored by God because of the depth of his faith. Because of this, God blessed his whole generation. A person can attract the divine favor of God by living for God.
We,
Gentiles (none Jews) would never have had access to God in any way
or form, because the redemption plan was primarily for the seeds of
Abraham.
But because
of God's infinite mercy, he has adopted us into his family by faith and now we
are called one body in Christ.
Ephesians
1:5 says, ’For He foreordained us (destined us, planned
in love for us) to be adopted (revealed) as His own children through Jesus
Christ, in accordance with the purpose of His will [because it pleased Him and
was His kind intent]’
To get a deeper revelation of this, please read Ephesians 1.
In Christ, we are one, God sees us all as one Galatians 3:27-29.
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Bibliography
Bible Gateway (1993) Bible Gateway. Available at: https://www.biblegateway.com/.
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