Clean or Unclean?

When you look at this picture how do you feel? I saw this ad this morning on ad goodness and it made me angry. I looked at it and was upset that the agency could minimize such a longstanding injustice and hatred. How could people make light of this? Then I got to thinking, why do I not long for this picture to come true. To me KKK and skinheads are unclean, not worthy of my love. But then I read Acts 10, and I am reminded by the love of our Lord. Nothing is beyond the power of God. God can make the most dirty, sinful person as soft as clay. He and only he can mold them into his child. I cannot look as his creation as unclean and unworthy of my love. All I can do is what I am commanded to do, love and share of God’s grace.

The next day, as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the housetop about the sixth hour to pray. And he became hungry and wanted something to eat, but while they were preparing it, he fell into a trance and saw the heavens opened and something like a great sheet descending, being let down by its four corners upon the earth. In it were all kinds of animals and reptiles and birds of the air. And there came a voice to him: “Rise, Peter; kill and eat.” But Peter said, “By no means, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.” And the voice came to him again a second time, “What God has made clean, do not call common.” This happened three times, and the thing was taken up at once to heaven.

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