Heaven will be such an incredible experience! In the meantime, our goal and our prayer is to proclaim and promote God’s will on earth as it is in Heaven.

For we know that if the earthly tent [our physical body] which is our house is torn down [through death], we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 Cor. 5:1 Amplified Bible

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Gal 3:28 NASB

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

Racism, or the prejudice/bias directed at another based on their race or ethnic background typically in the form of considering one race to be superior to another, is still alive today. Human beings possess a fallen nature and we all fall short of the glory of God. Racism and racist attitudes will not be fully defeated until Christ returns, but we certainly should make every effort to minimize its effects.

Sadly, racism is also exploited. It is used as a political weapon to antagonize and to create strife and division. In this age of social media, people are quick to hurl the accusation of “racist” and the ensuing media frenzy only exasperates the problem. There is money to be made and agendas to be pushed through the promotion and propagation of racism. If this were not true, then why would anyone fake such an incident? It would be better if we, the people would adhere to the advice of James, the brother of Jesus. Here’s the Amplified version of James 1:19-20: Understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Let everyone be quick to hear [be a careful, thoughtful listener], slow to speak [a speaker of carefully chosen words and], slow to anger [patient, reflective, forgiving];for the [resentful, deep-seated] anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God [that standard of behavior which He requires from us].

In the [awesome, wonderful, you should buy it now] book, Short Strolls in Faith, author/poet Rick Saltzer humorously and insightfully contemplates the effect on our society’s institutions if racism suddenly disappeared. He accomplished this in a poem entitled, “The Death of an Institution” and it is provided below for your reading pleasure:

the word was out, the finger had written,

                                    the box was open, the hand been bitten! –

                        studies completed, all findings were fair,

                                    data dissected, no margin for error! –

                        analysis pure, nothing refuted,

                                    the experts were sure, the case concluded! –

The Pillar collapsed, the Culture undone,

            Tradition erased and Chaos begun!:

                  …. marches were canceled and protests recalled,

                             everywhere writers were “shocked and appalled” –

                        pundits were puzzled and poets were vexed,

                                    media muzzled and artists perplexed –

                        news anchors sadly swallowed a sob,

                                    street preachers rudely thrown out of a job –

                        academics took a shot to the crotch,

                                    professors were put on suicide watch –

                        magazines folded and mayors resigned,

                                    bureaucracies completely realigned –

                        movies and screenplays were forced to be trashed,

                                    the thespian world was suddenly smashed –

                        colleges became financially strapped,

                                    large chunks of valued curricula scrapped –

                        musicians and singers ran out of steam,

                                    television shows were stripped of their theme –

                        journalists panicked with nothing to write –

                                    attorneys frantically searched for a fight –

                        political parties were equally stunned,

                                    nobody could tell which victims to fund. . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

                  …. on that fateful day when Racism ended,

                                    it’s safe to say confusion abounded –

                        the crutch on which so many depended

                                    gave way and left the country confounded –

                        a staple of everyday life removed,

                                    it was unclear how the people should act –

                        but with the new view, the nation improved,

                                    and the mayhem caused couldn’t change that fact –

                        now with The Skin-Pigment Problem resolved,

                                    the national scene would change forever –

                        the Race-Based endeavors were all dissolved,

                                    and Colors allowed to blend together. . . .