Reading | God's Acceptance

God accepts all. I love this reminder; it reminds us that no one is more or less than anyone else. We can all be pure in the eyes of God. I’m reading the book of Acts, and today I was studying Acts chapter 10. The story of Cornelius and Peter. Peter goes into a trance and a voice tells him to “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat” (v. 13) four-footed animals and reptiles and birds. In Peter’s eyes this is impure. But the voice replies to him, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.” God makes this clear when he later brings Jews and Gentile together in the chapter. He shows them that they are all accepted to have the Holy Spirit go upon them, and they’re all able to be baptized in His name. This shows Peter that he doesn’t have the authority to call others unclean. Anyone one at all who believes in Jesus and accepts him will be accepted themselves and receive forgiveness of sin through the glorious name of Jesus.

The power is in the Lord. He guides us on what to say and how to be in our own unique way. If God only accepted one type of being, what kind of world would this be. He accepts everyone and wants everyone to more greatly find themselves through finding Him. With God, we have the ability to love who we are, what we can do, and love those around us. “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism” (v.34). As long as we are God-fearing and do what is right, we are favored in the eyes of the Lord.

We are, of course, only human ourselves. We have no authority to judge those who are our equals. God sees us, and accepts us. 

Everything is in His timing.

Thy will be done. 

-CSV.