A Miss Is As Good As a Mrs.

    A couple of years ago a school teacher gave her young students (maybe third graders) an assignment that was "just for fun."  My niece, Mary Dixon, was in that class.  The teacher gave each student a list of the first few words of a well known phrase (idiom) and the students were to fill in the blanks with the rest of the phrase.  An example (and one that was on the list) is "you can lead a horse to water, but ______ ______"
This assignment actually turned out to be a source of amusement for our family.
     Actually, Mary Dixon did pretty well on this little project.  She knew quite a few of the phrases.  On those she didn't know, the answers she supplied were pretty creative.  The phrase and answer from her that I liked the most was "A miss is as good as __ ______."    Mary Dixon's answer was "A miss is as good as a Mrs."  Now I think my niece's answer was better than the real phrase -"A miss is as good as a mile."  And I hope she always has this attitude --that a Miss is as good as a Mrs. 
     You see, Mary Dixon has the right idea.  Every one is the same in God's eyes.  God loves us all and our value is not based on whether we are single or married.  Remember John 3:16 says, "For God so loved the world."  But God's love is for each individual person.  Jesus said, Matthew 22:30 "For in the resurrection, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven."  In Acts 10:34 in the home of Cornelius, Peter said "Of a truth, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons."  Each person will be held responsible for their own actions.  Just as we will all be judged individually, so Christ's blood was shed for each one of us individually. 
      Galatians 3:28 tells us "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female; for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."  And Colossians 3:11 says "Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free; but Christ is all and in all."
So you see - your race, your culture, your social status, your gender or even whether or not you are married - none of that matters to God.  He made you --YOU as an individual.  What matters is your heart, your love for God and your willingness to follow Him. 
     God loves you as a person -He knows how many hairs are on your head.  He knows your name.  Jesus died for you and me -- so He will also judge us as individual persons.  My point is, that to Him we are worth something.  We are worth His very life.  Those other things that people judge others by - looks, money, ethnic origin - that is not what He will judge us by.  He will judge us by how much we believe Him, love Him and follow Him.  He will judge us by our works.  He won't judge you for my works, nor will He judge me for what someone else did.  We are all on our own; but the wonderful thing is that we aren't either -- because if we are walking in the Light, we are not on our own.  He will be with us.
       So you see, Mary Dixon was exactly right - "A Miss- or a Mr.even - is every bit as good as a Mrs."

Christ above all things,
Robin