“Do not judge others, and you will not be judged. For you will be treated as you treat others.” (Matthew 7:1-2)

Jesus teaches us to treat all others as children of God, as individuals deserving of our unqualified love–a command that echoes throughout the New Testament.

In a world so often rent by political and cultural divisions, just as His world was, let us follow the example Jesus set forth as He walked this earth, and embrace the “other” as our own.

Loving God, today and and every day, let me see the world through the eyes of Jesus, treating each stranger with love and respect as a brother or sister in the Lord. Amen.