Recently i had the privilege of fellowship with a team of mostly young Brazilian Christians along with a number of others residing in the US and Canada. Was extremely blessed with their hearts for God manifested in many ways. However I also heard at least four troubling conversations of varying lengths between different individuals with reference to skin color. The gist of these was that how light or dark made a difference. ( The team had a wide range in this regard)
Now in the USA this has come to be a taboo subject, one which cannot be discussed, rationally or otherwise, without reprisal or accusation of some kind. But the US is a pagan nation. What should the thinking be for those who belong to the Kingdom of God?
Suprisingly, perhaps to some, the Bible is virtually silent on this subject. Jeremiah 13:23 asks whether the leopard can change his spots or the Ethiopian his skin; a rhetorical device. The song of Solomon (1:5-6) states "I am very dark but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. Do not gaze upon me because I am dark, because the sun has looked upon me." To the best of my knowledge that is all. The Bible has 1,189 chapters and about 33,000 verses. ( roughly equal to a sentence) It is a very long book and yet this subject, so important to the world, is barely mentioned.
In fact, it is so unimportant that no explanation is even given as to why people have different skin colors. So why the difference between the world and the Bible on this subject? This lies in the purpose of Satan and his kingdom as stated by Jesus in John 10:10. "The thief ( referring to the devil) comes only to steal, kill and destroy..." One of the ways that he does this to divide people against each other. In contrast those with Kingdom of God thinking understand the significance of verses like Colossians 3:11. "Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free, but Christ is all, and in all."
The Kingdom truth is that ultimately there are only two groups of people. There are those in the Kingdom of God and those in the kingdom of the devil. Skin color does not matter. We have no choice in the matter anyway. God has created us as He has chosen. May we be thankful.
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