God's Impartiality

“Since you call on a Father who judges each man’s work impartially, live your lives as strangers here in reverent fear.” 1 Peter 1:17

Our Father loves us all, and not only saves us, but loves us and judges us impartially. He does not show favoritism. Nothing we can do before we know Him can position us more favorably before we surrender to Him. We all come to Him individually, naked, equal, and possessing nothing that merits anything. Our age, intellect, experience, craft, skill, accomplishments, size, station in life, culture, race or even who we know or how “less sinful” we are, gives us any advantage. The ground at the foot of the cross is equal. No one stands any taller or closer or more special than anyone else. “All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:23) We all need the same salvation, mercy, and grace. We all come from corruptible seeds and all possess the same sin nature. We are all tempted. We all succumb. We must reckon with the same reverent fear of an awesome God who has granted us a gift we equally don’t deserve. “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.” (And you and you and you, too.) We have both depravity and hope in common. We are strangers in a strange place, equally estranged and saved.

A fellow sheep,
Pastor Fred

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