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“Why can’t everybody just be like me?”

There is nothing that comes close to the unique and wonderful nature of the Lord’s church anywhere in all the earth—past, present or future!  Only the perfect, loving and awesome God could take ALL the DIFFERENT kinds of people and bring them TOGETHER into perfect, loving and awesome harmony.  Think about all the kinds of folks there are in the family of God.

Gentlemen and ladies.  Old, young and middle-aged.  Tall and short, heavy and light, and all of those in between.  Blonde, brunette and bald.  Righties, lefties and “ambies.”  Loud and quiet.  Talkers and listeners.  Red and yellow, black and white.

Northerners and Southerners.  Country folks and city folks.  Grade school graduates, high school graduates and Ph.D.s.  Lower-class, middle-class and upper-class.  Singles, married, divorced and widows.  Doctors and patients, lawyers and clients, employers and employees.  Floridians and those who wish they were.

Coke lovers and Pepsi lovers.  PC and Mac.  Take it black, cream/sugar, iced and flavored.  Micky-D’s and BK.  Vegetarians and carnivores.  Sweet tea lovers and those who should be.  Plain vanilla, chocolate and rocky road.

Red Sox and Yankees.  Auburn and Alabama.  Seminoles and Gators.  Buckeyes and Wolverines.  UNC and Duke.  Lakers and Celtics.  Dolphins and Patriots.  Cowboys and Redskins.  Bears and Packers.

Early birds and habitually late.  Weight watchers and weight shoppers.  Spenders and savers.  Clean-r-uppers and mess-r-uppers.  OCD and definitely not OCD.  Huggers and hand-shakers.  Energetic and n-o-t-s-o-e-n-e-r-g-e-t-i-c.  Animal lovers and animal “toleraters.”  Left-brained and right-brained.  Good humored and “stop trying to be cute!”

God sent His Son for every last one of us.  He gave His plan of salvation for each of us to follow.  Every person who obeys the will of God is saved from their sins and God adds them to His church!  In God’s plan, He shows no partiality.  “Whoever” (look at the lists above) “fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him” (Acts 10:34-35).

The Lord’s church is a family.  In the family of God, we accept everyone who is in our family (i.e., His family), for God Himself has accepted them!  We might all be different (in many ways), but the reality is that we are all the same—“children of God…in the midst of a crooked generation.”