only rainbow of beauty

Tuesday, January 8^th, Ephesians 3:  ² Surely you have heard about the administration of God’s grace that was given to me for you, ³ that is, the mystery made known to me by revelation, as I have already written briefly. ⁴ In reading this, then, you will be able to understand my insight into the mystery of Christ, ⁵ which was not made known to people in other generations as it has now been revealed by the Spirit to God’s holy apostles and prophets. ⁶ This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise in Christ Jesus. In the time of Paul, the boundary crossing of seeing the blessings and grace of God being extended to both Jews and Gentiles was earth shattering.  In our day, most of us are still trying to get our heads around that one.  But does God stop there?  What other boundaries is God asking us to tear down?  What other walls have we set up to keep “them” out because surely God made a mistake when they were created?  Wait, stop, think about it.  If God is God, then surely those created different from ourselves are not a mistake of God.  Perhaps the obstacle all along is our ability to love one another cross borders.   When we learn to accept that those who love differently, worship differently, speak differently, eat differently, laugh and play and work differently are too created in the image of God and called good, then perhaps we can begin to grasps the “mystery of Christ.”  The Mystery is that from God’s point of view, there are no boundaries; there is only a rainbow of beauty.