Are you Equal or Better??

Hi Everybody ....... :)
I pray that you all are doing well. Here is something I started some time back that I needed to finish and I thought it would be something of interest for you to read and ponder over. It's a subject that still bounces off the inner walls of my head bone every day due to one reason or another. Maybe that's my problem, too many things bouncing around turning the gray matter into jell-o!

What is Equal or Equality?

This is something that has bothered me probably most of my adult life. Is there a true meaning to the term Equal or Equality? Not according to anything I’ve read in the encyclopedias or dictionaries. Equal: “a state of equality.” And under Equality you have: egalitarianism: “the belief that all/some people ought to be treated equally”, equal outcome, equal opportunity, equal treatment, equal before the law, racial equality, sexual equality and social equality. None of which makes anybody equal to another!
Our government says we are entitled to equal opportunity, but because of our social, sexual and or racial equality there is no equal treatment, which does not put us equal before the law, which in turn does not give us an equal outcome!
Where is the overall equality that we seek? It is hard to understand this when we see our own government taking advantage of the position it is in by thinking they are better than the everyday John or Jane Doe on the street. There’s the key word that shames us all, BETTER! There will never be any equality as long as people believe they are better than everyone else. And the government is the worst offender! Why? How? Here are a few examples. 1. Any high ranking official in the government cannot me arrested for a misdemeanor. You and I would be incarcerated on the spot. Equal? 2. The president, after his 4 year term in office is over, still gets his yearly salary and full medical benefits (least we forget about the senators and congressmen/women). The armed services Veteran that puts in their four year term, especially during an armed conflict/war, has to fight for everything they Deserve! Equal? Wasn’t it 90 billion dollars that was approved on for fighting this war on terrorism? And the Army is real proud about this new troop carrier thing that only cost $900K, each! How many billions of dollars were approved on to compensate the families for a lost loved one or to take care of our veterans that have sworn to protect us? Equal?
The only thing that comes close for us being equal to one another is the blood that gives us life. But yet even that does not make us equal because my 0+ can be given to just about anyone else, I cannot receive A, B, AB, (+) or (-), or just about any other type there is. The color of our blood, red, is the only physical thing that makes us equal to one another.
We separate, segregate and categorize according to our social, sexual, racial, moral, political and religious beliefs. We have beaten the 1st and 2nd Amendments to death trying to figure out what would be equal for all, forgetting why they were written in the first place. Just because it’s old doesn’t mean it’s outdated and should be changed!!
From the beginning of time there has been no equality. We have all been blessed with different talents and that’s the way it should be in order for this world to survive. But we have this crazy idea that we are better than others just because of the knowledge and skills we may poses. The knowledge and skills that I have, are in most cases, different than yours but that doesn’t make me any better than you or you better than me. And yes, that even applies to someone flipping burgers to the President of the United States. Neither one is better than the other. But because society dictates certain guidelines, and the law makers make unfavorable laws between the two positions, it makes equality non-existent. If a government official makes an error in judgment he or she is given the opportunity to resign (depending on how high up they are on the ladder). Why? If we, as the government calls citizens, make the same error in judgment, we are fired on the spot! Equal? Are not all government officials citizens?
What makes anyone better than anyone else? Nothing! It doesn’t matter if you’re black, brown, white, yellow, purple, pink or green – Catholic, Baptist, Protestant, Christian, Jewish, Mormon or even Muslim or Atheist – Republican, Democrat, Independent, or Whatever.
This may be hard for some of you to believe or understand, but we are all Equal in the eyes of God through his mercy and grace, whether you believe or not. What we say and do, act and react while we are here on the face of this earth, will, only in the end be determined if we are finally Equal to one another in Heaven or Hell.
So now, who are you Equal to? And are you really looking for Equality? Or does your ego make you think you’re better than others? We are never as good as we think we are and only half as good as others make us out to be. We are blinded by our own sense of worth to a point of not being respectful of/to others. Just because we don’t have the same beliefs, live in the same neighborhood or watch the same type of JUNK on the TV does not give us the right to be disrespectful to one another. People, by their words and actions have lost my respect for most, but I am NOT disrespectful towards them. Try treating others as you wish to be treated and understand that just because you live in your own little world, so do others live in theirs. Show some respect and treat them as an Equal, even though you like steak and they like hotdogs.
I am I guess, what they call, a practicing Christian. My life falls under the best moral and everyday life standards of laws that have been written and I’m proud to say as much too! My God is your God, even if you don’t believe. And his Son Jesus was sacrificed for all sinners not just a certain few. Every single one of us are equal in God’s eyes, why is it so hard for us to be equal in each others?

Thank you Father God for everything you have done, everything you are doing and everything that is yet to come. In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.

Remember – JLY + MGBYAKY
Love to All
ME