Today's Daily Bread
Where Did I Come From?
My 7-year-old African-American friend Tobias asked me a
thought-provoking question the other day: “Since Adam and Eve were
white, where did black people come from?” When I told him we don’t know
what “color” they were and asked him why he thought they were white, he
said that’s what he always saw in Bible-story books at church and in the
library. My heart sank. I wondered if that might make him think he was
inferior or possibly not even created by the Lord.
All people have their roots in the Creator God, and therefore all are
equal. That’s what the apostle Paul told the Athenians: “[God] has made
from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the
earth” (Acts 17:26). We are all “from one blood.” Darrell Bock, in his
commentary on the book of Acts, says, “This affirmation would be hard
for the Athenians, who prided themselves in being a superior people,
calling others barbarians.” However, because we all descended from our
first parents, Adam and Eve, no race nor ethnicity is superior or
inferior to another.
We stand in awe of our Creator, who made us and gives to all “life,
breath, and all things” (v.25). Equal in God’s sight, we together praise
and honor Him.
Every life has been created—
God’s handiwork displayed;
When we cherish His creation,
We value what He’s made. —Sper
God’s handiwork displayed;
When we cherish His creation,
We value what He’s made. —Sper
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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