A 'we' or a 'they'?

Citizens and noncitizens all have access to God's impartial love.

from the March 20, 2007 edition

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Whether legal or illegal immigrants, generations-established citizens, or longer established indigenous people, everyone has uniform access to God's impartial love. Nobody – in any circumstance – is outside the reach of God's care.

Prayer can open the way to honorably and legally resolving both the human rights issues facing immigrants and fears of competition for resources challenging to those welcoming immigrants into their country.

Universal access to divine Love, to the degree such access is perceived and proved, provides solutions to the legitimate needs of new and continuing citizens, since the Father-Mother God loves all impartially.

The Bible assures all: "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God" (Eph. 2:19).

Contrary to a sense of division that comes with the terrain of material self-labeling, that biblical assurance presents God's view of citizenship: that it is impossible to be foreign to His realm or a stranger to Her love.

This belonging to the divine household is the highest citizenry attainable. It is open to all and becomes apparent to the degree we conform our thoughts and actions to God's all-loving intent.

My parents loved their adopted country and rejoiced to become citizens. I, too, love the country of my birth. However, whether I am a "we" or a "they" has become secondary to knowing that as an expression of the "one I, or Us," I am secure in my identity as God's beloved child and value everyone else's true identity likewise.

In the place
where it was said unto them,
Ye are not my people;
there shall they be called
the children of the living God.
Romans 9:26

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