Colossians 3:11 Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

There is no race or religion which can say they have preferential access to God or to heaven – we are all equal.

God does not require us to belong to a race, people, religion or any other group which we think is better than the rest – God looks at each of us as individuals.

Jesus came to be a servant for all and to all. Just because we have great wealth or no wealth at all, God will not be particular about whom He chooses.

God looks at our lives, our surroundings and our interaction with Him and His people around us.

Acts 10:34 Then Peter began to speak: “I now realize how true it is that God does not show favouritism”

No matter how good we think we are or how well we compare with other people, God is going to look at what is in your heart and not what the world sees you as!

We can have the best reputation amongst people and still be bad on the inside – God sees right through that!

We can uphold the most amazing jobs and work for all the charities we can – but God sees what is burdened on our hearts and not our deeds!

Job 1:1 In the land of Uz there lived a man whose name was Job. This man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil.

No matter how good we are or how much we do things according to God’s laws, we are not going to be free from bad things happening around us or even to us!

Some of the great men listed in our bibles such as Job, Noah, Abraham and Jacob are described as upright people – and yet bad things still happened – and in some cases they did bad things!

We live in a corrupt world where the evil one has free reign and if we allow him to have reign rather than God, then we should not expect things to always go our way. Trust God alone and look to the future!