August 23 2017 – Click here to listen
I received an email from a reader the other day who offered a suggestion that undoubtedly would be the perfect solution for eliminating racism. She wrote:
“One Race? What if we start a movement called “One Race”? We are ALL members of the human race. We are all ONE.”
I know what some of you are thinking. You have a difficult time equating members of Antifa, KKK, Neo-Nazis, ISIS, and other nasty movements with the human race, but even those organizations might realize that they don’t have to lash out or go to war since we all are one race and there is no reason to hate anyone because they are different than us.
I often wonder why God created us to be different. Just like our fingerprints and DNA, no two people are exactly the same. Only God knows for sure, but that is the way we were created. One thing sure, with all of the unique talents and gifts bestowed upon the various races, if we all worked together as a team we could accomplish anything.
This is verified in the Bible. Shortly after the flood the descendants of Noah were living in the area of Mesopotami in Babylon. They settled in a land named Shinar. The population was growing and they all spoke one language. The people decided to build a tall, proud symbol of how great they had made their nation. The Babylonians wanted a tower that would “reach to the heavens” so that they could be like God and that they would not need Him. They began to construct a great ziggurat. (Sound familiar? Remember Satan wanting to be like God?)
God did not like the pride and arrogance in the hearts of the people. In Genesis 11:6 God made a powerful statement: “The LORD said, If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.”
Because their motives were evil God caused the people to suddenly speak different languages so they could not communicate and work together to build the tower. This caused the people to scatter across the land. The tower was named The Tower of Babel because the word Babel means confusion.
This story is a powerful reminder of what happens when we ignore God, fail to obey His Word, and think that we can build a successful godless life on our own!
Their hopes were dashed before they were ever realized. Unfortunately, we did not learn much from this lesson and the world for the most part has gone its own way independent of God ever since.
We’ve certainly made a mess of things eh?
A few thousand years later ironically Jesus prayed for His church to come together as one in John 17:20: “I am not asking on behalf of them alone, but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me through their message, that all of them may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I am in You. May they also be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. I have given them the glory You gave Me, so that they may be one as We are one — . . .”
Hmmm…If we apply the text from the verse above to this one, we can presuppose that, while left unsaid, the following still applies, “then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them.”
That is more powerful than a nuclear bomb.
The answer to eliminating racism, bigotry, hate, wars, and so on, lies in turning to God and following Him versus the world.
Romans 12:2
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will.