The Bible explains
itself. For example: Is God a respecter of persons? Does God show partiality? If we look at the context
of the seven passages where this precept is discussed we find they deal with
salvation, judgment or rewards, the context explains the thought. Therefore,
God is no respecter of persons when it comes to salvation, judgment, or
rewards. These areas withheld, of course God is a respecter of persons. He
created us as unique individuals with unique pathways of transformation,
respecting our uniqueness.
Some examples: John
the Baptist spent 30 years in the woods eating bugs, followed by a three month
local ministry than loss of his head. Stephen, the newly appointed deacon, was
stoned to death before he could get new business cards printed, while Phillip,
another deacon, stepped beyond astral projection and moved physically and
instantaneously from place to place, carried by the wind of the Holy Spirit.
Eleven of the original apostles were tortured and killed while the twelfth, the
Apostle John, lived to a ripe old age dreaming of heaven. The Apostle Paul suffered far more than any
one recorded in scriptures and was beheaded in prison, while Lazarus was raised
from the dead to a long and peaceful life.
And then there is Hebrews 11 where the great faith of Abraham, Isaac,
Jacob, Joseph, and Moses, is juxtaposed with the equally great faith of other
saints who were tortured, scourged, imprisoned, stoned, sawed in two, slain
with the sword, and left destitute, afflicted, tormented and homeless. God does not treat us all the same; He deals
with each of His children as uniquely created beings with unique personalities,
dispositions, and proclivities, whom He has predestined to be conformed into
the nature of His Son. He is focused on our perfection, our transformation into
Christlikeness, and uses the unique circumstances of our life to mold and shape
us.
“THEREFORE YOU SHALL BE PERFECT,
JUST AS YOUR FATHER
IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT”
(Acts 10;32; Rom.
2:11; Eph. 6:9; Col. 3:25; James 2:1; 1 Peter 1:17; 2 Chron. 19:7; Rom. 8:29,
12:2; Matt. 5:48)
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