Dignity and Respect

One of the things I find interesting about the human race is the way we treat “important” people.

In business we tend to think of our superiors as important.

In politics we tend to think of our leaders as important.

We even tend to think of religious leaders as important.

Leaders are given titles and those titles denote their position within the structure of the body they serve.

In and of itself this is not a bad thing as it helps everyone within the structure function efficiently and effectively.

As humans, we tend to treat those above us in the structure as more important than ourselves.

In fact, we tend to think the higher up in the structure a person is, the more important that person must be.

Unfortunately, we tend to apply the same logic to those below us in the structure.

We tend to treat these individuals as if they were less important than ourselves.

There is nothing wrong with treating those that lead us with respect and dignity,

Plainly speaking, we should treat everyone with respect and dignity no matter what their station in life happens to be.

I do not think for a moment that God considers any one human being as being more important than another.

After all, God provided for the salvation of mankind long ago.

John 3:16 (NET) – For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

The passage continues.

John 3:17 (NET) - For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

Notice that these verses apply to “everyone” in “the world”.

Nowhere is it stated that salvation is reserved for “the important”.

That concept of importance is a human invention.

Every man and woman, leaders and followers alike, are creations of God.

All are created in His image.

As such, everyone should be treated with dignity and respect.

Blessings,

Jim Pokorny

The Other Brother Jim

Look for me at http://otherbrotherjim.blogspot.com/ on Friday, October 9, 2015.

I’ll be back here on Friday, October 16, 2015