James 2 -- Overlooked?

I’ll bet most people have forgotten encountering these verses in the Bible:

“But if you treat one person as being more important than another, you are sinning.  You are guilty of breaking God’s law.  A person who follows all of God’s law but fails to obey even one command is guilty of breaking ALL the commands in that law.”

Simply treating one person as more important than another is a sin.  That produces spiritual death in us.  And in case anyone wants to argue about definitions, my commentary wrote this:  “Sin is any lack of conformity to the will of God, a failure to meet His standards.”  Additionally, it said that all of God’s commands are like a chain, and breaking any of them breaks them all.  We cannot choose which of His laws we like.

Father, I admit that even as hard as I try, I have trouble keeping even that one small command!  So that means I’ve broken them all.  I’m a sinner in need of race and forgiveness.  Thank You so much for giving them both to me, but the cost to You, in the death of Your Son for my sins, was staggering – more than I could ever repay.  Help me never to forget what love You showed me in doing that for me.

Your Brother In Christ,

Gary Ford