Red and Yellow, Black and White

Esther 1-3

History is filled with individuals willing facing great personal sacrifice in order to spare an entire group of people. David Livingstone, Lottie Moon, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. just to name a few.   The book of Esther is the story of two others, Esther and her guardian, Mordecai, whose names should appear on the list. 

There is one name; a name above all names that would be at the top of the list.  In fact, this Person would be on a list all His own.  The people He cared about?  Every human who ever was.  My Sunday school lesson records a singular event that sincerely illustrates this.  The criminal on the cross turns to Jesus and says, “Remember me…” Jesus, filled with loving compassion even in His agonizing death, culminates His ministry to save people in His response, “Today you will be with Me in paradise.”

It wasn’t Africans, Chinese’s, Indians or Blacks that Jesus came to save.  If you will pardon my politically incorrectness, let me sing you the answer:

Jesus loves the little children

All the children of the world

Red and yellow, black and white

They are precious in His sight

Jesus loves the little children of the world.

Don’t you just love the “politically incorrect” Jesus!!!

deGelder's Esther and Mordecai