Peach Pie Verses Apple Pie = Pie

Galatians 3:26 ESV  

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

Recently I have gone to some functions that have served peach pie for dessert; in fact most of the functions I go to serve some sort of peach dish for dessert.  Needless to say I am not a fan of peaches, in fact I often feel that I am an apple pie person living in a peach pie world.

Maybe this is how we can describe how God’s people get along with one another? Have you ever encountered people that rub you the wrong way, in fact they are the peach pie to your apple pie lifestyle. There is nothing we can do about these peach pie people, but accept them in the understanding that we are different, but we both like pie.

The same can be said for Christ’s people that worship differently in regards to how they worship. Maybe they baptize infants our wait for them to get older and decide about baptism; maybe their communion tables are open or closed.

Beloved, even though we may worship differently we are still united in the fact that we worship the same God. Even though we may worship differently, we still worship the same Jesus Christ that paid for our sins upon the cross and defeated the empty tomb.

Beloved, my prayer for us today is that as the Body of Christ, we look to building up our similarities instead of focusing on our differences. May we embrace our key unity in the words of John 3:16: ¹⁶ For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

Go forward today enjoying peach pie and I will go forward enjoying apple pie and we will both celebrate the fact that we both love pie. 

This is the day that the Lord has made.