Never a Truer word.

This was written by Bob and Debby Gass with Ruth Gass Haliday.
It really spoke to me, so I decided to share it. Especially as I make a similar statement about prejudice in the front of my book 'A Rat and A Ransom.'

Prejudice is the product of a lazy mind. It's contempt prior to investigation. Your first impression of someone is incomplete and inaccurate.
Don't assume your intuition is always right. Don't make lasting decisions based on limited insights. Your success in life will be adversely affected by prejudice, fear and any form of discrimination you allow to colour your thinking.
Jesus never determined a person's worth based on their race, gender, financial status or appearance. He was comfortable in the presence of fishermen and tax collectors. He was at ease with the rich and the poor. He knew that every person He met had potential and He never looked down on them because of their past.Born to a mother who conceived Him as a virgin, He knew what it meant to have a questionable background and be subject to the rumour mill. But He rose above it. And broke with tradition.
The Samaritans were considered such a lower class of people that Jews wouldn't talk to them. But Jesus did. In fact He went out of His way to meet a five-times divorced Samaritan woman, discussing the mysteries of worship with her and changing her life.
When Peter who struggled with prejudice, was called to introduce the gospel to the first group of Gentiles, he had to acknowledge, 'I perceive that God is no respecter of persons.'
That day God dealt with some of Peter's deep-seated biases. And He will deal with yours too!
If God so loved the world' but you don't, how can you claim to be 'godly'?