Okay to be white, February 28, 2024.

Dear Gavin, it was really great meeting you in person last week.

Thanks for making the trek over our way and it was great worshiping together with you.

Our conversation after church really helped me to fill in some of the cracks.

Near the end of our conversation we talked a bit about the consternation that was created

that time when somebody posted a bunch of flyers around a campus somewhere that said it's okay to be white. The furious

reaction that that received was enough to demonstrate for good and all that when it comes to ethnic relations we are a demented people.

But I wanted to follow up on that part of our conversation because there are some subtleties in it that are often missed.

The biblical subtext underneath what I'm about to say here has to do with the subjects of contentment,

envy, competition, and desire.

So with that said, let me adjust the phrase, it's okay to be white and apply and because it provides the context and the rationale for the rest of the statement.

It is okay for you to be white because that is how God made you.

Of course it is okay.

Shall the pot say to the potter, why did you make me like this?

Romans 920.

Who gets to talk back to God?

In the same way and for exactly the same reason, it is okay for a black man to be black.

Rejecting this or rebelling against it is the ultimate in futility.

In a moment's thought should reveal that this applies to a host of issues and isms,

but particularly to the isms that are tearing our culture apart right now.

One person is not content with the biological sex that got assigned to him in his chromosomes, and so he wants to be a woman.

The root sin there is discontent and envy, which then leads to the disordered sin of self-mutilation and confusion.

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