PREJUDICE IS A FIRST CLASS PAIN

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Prejudice is certainly nothing knew. It has been around ever since God peopled the earth.

Insecure men and women, seeking to make some other folk even more insecure, have courted this piece of hell and unfortunately kept it alive and well.

Prejudice was rampant in Jesus’ time. Not that He liked it. Not that He supported it. But it was there. And so it was that one day on a trip through Samaria He had a beautiful opportunity to ignore one of the prejudices of the time, and He did.

There was a well and it was filled with water. He was thirsty but had no rope nor bucket. Along came a Samaritan woman who did have a rope and bucket.

But talk to a Samaritan? Bad scene. Talk to a woman? Even worse. Men weren’t suppose to address women in public.

However, Jesus had his own sense of proper protocol and this opportunity to break two prejudices at the same time was just too good to pass by.

This Master of love and light was thirsty, so He did what common sense demanded and prejudice would have denied. He asked her for a drink of water.

Oh, the story goes a lot further than that.

Since they were now talking, communication ensued.

“Where do I find God?” she asked and it was all uphill from there.

But that is not the point I want to make. I want to call attention to the fact that if Jesus had followed the guidelines of prejudice currently in vogue, there would have been no water for His thirsty lips and no discussion to benefit her thirsty soul.

Prejudice does that. It keeps people from talking to each other and learning from each other and benefiting from each other. Prejudice is a first class pain and too often we don’t have the sense to shove it away and tell it to get lost.
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A SIX DAY SERIES ON ANGER BEGINNING ON FRIDAY (JAN 15)
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HE COULD HAVE KILLED HIM BUT HE DIDN’T (Dec 28)
JUST AN ORDINARY INSECT (Dec 25)
ARE YOU WRITING HAPPINESS WITH FADING INK? (Dec 23)
HAVE YOU GONE BLIND OR IS IT THAT YOU JUST HAVEN’T OPENED YOUR EYES (DEC 11)
THE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING IMPORTANCE (Dec 10)
DON’T LOSE YOUR PRAYER WHILE PRAYING (DEC 9)

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