Hey there, and welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread.

Our reading titled Equal Before God was written by Dave Brannon.

While on vacation, my wife and I enjoyed some early morning bike rides.

One route took us through a neighborhood of multi-million dollar homes.

We saw a variety of people, residents walking their dogs, fellow bike riders, and numerous

workers building new homes or attending well-kept landscapes.

It was a mixture of people from all walks of life, and I was reminded of a valuable reality.

There was no true distinction among us.

Rich or poor, wealthy or working class, known or unknown.

All of us on that street that morning were the same.

Rich and poor have this in common.

The Lord is the maker of them all, it says in Proverbs 22, too.

Regardless of differences, we were all made in God's image.

But there's more.

Being equal before God also means that no matter our economic, social, or ethnic situation,

Romans 323 declares that we're all born with a sin condition. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. We're all disobedient

and equally guilty before Him, and we need Jesus. We often divide people into groups for a variety of reasons, but in reality, we're all part

of the human race.

And though we're all in the same situation, sinners in need of a Savior, we can be justified

freely, made right with God by His grace.

Today's Our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Romans chapter 3, verses 21 through 26.

But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been made known, to which the law

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