Devotion:
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Read Acts 10:34.
When I was growing up, I loved to visit my grandparents who lived in western North Carolina. I loved to hear their stories, eat dinner with them (my grandaddy could cook a mean breakfast and my grandmother made wonderful desserts), and spend time at their house and on the family farm. We were so close that a few of my cousins would comment in disgust that I was “the favorite grandchild.” I of course have reminded my cousins of that remark ever since. But the reality was that my grandparents loved all ten of us grandkids in different ways. They didn’t have a favorite. We are prone as humans to constantly be ranking who is “the favorite.” The disciples argued about status, and the early church constantly was divided about who was in and who was out, and who was on top. Peter struggled with this as well. But Peter also spent enough time with Jesus to realize the radical nature of God’s love. Peter came to believe by Jesus’ lived example, that “truly God shows no partiality.” How would our lives be different if we believed as Peter believed?
Personal Worship Option:
Lord, help me to love and to value others as Jesus did and does. Amen.
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