OUR LORD WHO JUSTLY GOVERNS HIS KINGDOM

James chapter 2 verse 9 says this;

But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.

In this verse, the Apostle James, adjures the reader with a warning about showing favoritism.

James emphasises that believers who give special treatment and favour to the rich while demeaning the poor by, for example, instructing them to sit on the floor, are judging others with evil thoughts  and would be numbered among the lawbreakers.

The poor, James reminds us, have been chosen by God to be rich in faith and are entrusted with spiritual riches that abound to those who move strongly in faith and will inherit the promised Kingdom.

To dishonor the poor is to wrongly invert the order that the Lord has ordained for the church which, as the body of Christ, should be guided by spiritual realities and not by what is seen in the flesh. Such conduct will invite judgement.

Bless the Lord whose manifold wisdom justly governs the affairs of His Kingdom.

Amen.