A WORD TO THE WISE. Proverbs 28: 21 "Partiality"

Proverbs 28: 21     To show partiality is not good, because for a piece of bread a man will transgress.

Proverbs 28: 21.  Right is right.  Wrong is wrong.  Just is just.  Stupid is stupid.  Regardless of whom the people are.  Regardless of their/ your affiliations.

Yet, there are people who expect you to support them and their plans just because you are also a Democrat, or a Republican, or Black, or White, or Methodist.  These people talk a lot about mutually scratching backs, but their ease with partiality and favoritism betrays a dangerous mentality. 

For them status and power are more important than old-fashioned right and wrong.  When your integrity, your reluctance to get with the program, or your basic existence threatens their superior status or fails to sufficiently increase their power-----they will sell you out.  Interestingly, today as in Solomon’s time, most sell-outs happen over a meal.

 Be warned.  The “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine” approach exposes your blind side to strange fingernails and to potentially fatal knife wounds.

Oh, and look at the backs of the people around you.  Check your hands for a hidden blade.  Examine your mentality. 

Consider whether you feel justified in attacking your brother or sister just because he/she failed to tow the party line. 

How easy has it become to disregard the plank in your associates eye while you take a magnifying glass to the speck in the eye of your opponent?  

What moral lines have you crossed in the name of “unity”? 

What explicit Biblical truths have you ignored for the good of the group?

What truths from the other side have you dismissed? 

What lies from your side have you defended?

Has your self(ish)-interest, your desire to maintain or take back your power led you to blind partiality? 

Was the bread good?

To show partiality is not good, because for a piece of bread a man will transgress.

Leviticus 19:15 ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor. 

---Anderson T. Graves II

Rev. Anderson T. Graves II is the pastor of Hall Memorial CME Church

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