How do you treat the people you encounter that are different? Define different however you want, not just monetarily, but what about color? religion? ethnicity? Perhaps different is just a personality trait that really gets on your nerves... How do you deal with those people?

I always find it very sobering to sit back and look at how I treat the people I get along with compared to those I don't. I find that I am shorter in my conversations and less apt to dig into the lives of the personalities that clash with mine. I rush them through our conversations so I can move on. I am less patient and less caring towards those people in general. I am convicted that this is a form of favoritism in my own life that goes completely against Christ's call to "love my neighbor" (v8).


What about you? How do you treat the people that are different?

James 2:1-3, James 2:4 and James 2:5-13