Moving away from unique?

We are all different. Physically, mentally, spiritually. We see
things in different ways. Given, they may be similar, they are
different. Our bodies are different. They may all have similar
things, but they are all of different sizes, shaped in different ways,
of different colors -- things the Methodist church calls "diverse".

God may have made us in this way, but He doesn't call for us to stay
this way. Jesus didn't design a single parable or instruction for
"just this group of people". They are for all to follow. The
beatitudes tell us what we should strive for. The great commandment
is an instruction of how all of us should be similar in this way.

Paul writes continuously about how we should love one another... so
far as to put a description as to how we should and to what extent we
should when writing to the Corinthians. Here he's not calling us to
love differently, but to all seek this same kind of love.

When I say that we're all different, it is because we are. Not in
God's standard, but in the one of our own. In our anatomy and things
of this earth. But when we are in heaven, of which some debate that
we might partially be in right now through spirit, none of those
things are seen or cared of. God calls us to be more similar, to all
strive toward the same goals.

He has given us different talents. When we put all of them together
(okay, somehow this made me think of captain planet, but back to the
subject at hand), we will be able to strive further towards
similarity.

Just some thoughts. Like I have said many times, I do not know much
of anything. I think. I ponder. And sometimes I write what I think
and share it with others, so that they too may think. Mystery novels
have always been fun for me to read... only recently have I realized
that the greatest mystery of all is found in what we as Christians
believe. We're all in the same boat... that in itself may be the
scariest part of all.

in Christ,
chris

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