I was watching Wintley Phipps the other night before going to bed. He performed the most poignant rendition of “Amazing Grace” I have ever heard. It was on a Gaither video recorded at Carnegie Hall shortly after 9/11. Before he sang, he made the comment that “black or white, slave or free, we are all connected by God’s Amazing Grace.”
I went to sleep pondering that thought. There are many people in my life with whom I would have no natural affinity except for the connecting of God’s Amazing Grace.
Paul reminds us of that fact, once in Colossians 3:10 that “there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all,” and again in Galatians 3:28 that “there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” [NKJV]
It matters not what we are when we approach the cross. Our backgrounds, our social status, our ethnicity, our education – nothing counts one iota in our favor. We all come exactly the same, a desperate soul in search of a Savior.
And when we rise from there, we are all exactly the same, a child of God filled with His amazing grace
Yes, we truly are “all connected by God’s Amazing Grace” given us in Christ Jesus. PTL
