Christ is all and in all.

Romans 16:14-15 Greet Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermes, Patrobas, Hermas and the brethren with them. Greet Philologus and Julia, Nereus and his sister, and Olympas, and all the saints who are with them. This list of names are Greek names, which encourages me that Paul’s acquaintances were diverse. He was not hindered by race differences. The love of Jesus broke down those barriers. In Jesus, we are one body—many members in one body. This reality was declared explicitly in his letter to the Colossians. He told them they had “put on the new self who is being renewed to a true knowledge according to the image of the One who created him—a renewal in which there is no distinction between Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and freeman, but Christ is all, and in all” (Col. 3:10-11). As we live our lives to love with Jesus, we are encouraged to overlook race and ethnic distinctions. God’s love is the same for all of the saints. All who are in Christ are considered God’s holy ones. A saint isn’t someone who is outstanding above other believers. A saint is someone who has been set aside to God, holy and beloved, in Christ. It is the love of Jesus that holds us together and makes us one. May we be filled with His love today for His glory.