Proverbs 28: 21 To
show partiality is not good, because
for a piece of bread a man will transgress.
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Proverbs 28: 21. Right is
right. Wrong is wrong. Just is just.
Stupid is stupid. Regardless of
whom the people are. Regardless of their/
your affiliations.
Yet, there are people who expect you to support them and their plans just
because you are also a Democrat, or a Republican, or Black, or White, or
Methodist. These people talk a lot about
mutually scratching backs, but their ease with partiality and favoritism betrays
a dangerous mentality.
For them status and power are more important than old-fashioned right and
wrong. When your integrity, your
reluctance to get with the program, or your basic existence threatens their
superior status or fails to sufficiently increase their power-----they will
sell you out. Interestingly, today as in
Solomon’s time, most sell-outs happen over a meal.
Be warned. The “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch
mine” approach exposes your blind side to strange fingernails and to
potentially fatal knife wounds.
Oh, and look at the backs of the people around you. Check your hands for a hidden blade. Examine your mentality.
Consider whether you feel justified in attacking your brother or sister just
because he/she failed to tow the party line.
How easy has it become to disregard the plank in your associates eye
while you take a magnifying glass to the speck in the eye of your
opponent?
What moral lines have you crossed in the name of “unity”?
What explicit Biblical truths have you ignored for the good of the group?
What truths from the other side have you dismissed?
What lies from your side have you defended?
Has your self(ish)-interest, your desire to maintain or take back your power
led you to blind partiality?
Was the bread good?
To show partiality is not good, because for a piece of
bread a man will transgress.
Leviticus 19:15 ‘You shall do
no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the
person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.
---Anderson T. Graves II
Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is the pastor of Hall Memorial CME Church
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