YOU WILL THANK ME LATER
Some of you are tired of hearing about racism, tired of the conversations, tired of being pushed, tired of being told to step outside what feels normal. You’d rather keep your circle the way it is—same background, same culture, same kind of people. It’s easier that way.
But if you ever change—really change—you will thank me for not dropping it. Because right now, you don’t know what you’re missing.
A closed-off life doesn’t feel small when you’re in it. But it is. The Bible warns us about that kind of narrow living. “He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but whoever walks wisely will be delivered” (Proverbs 28:26). When your whole world is made up of people just like you, you’re not being stretched, you’re just being confirmed. And that’s insulation, not wisdom.
God never meant for a man to live that way.
The Word tells us plainly that showing partiality is sin (James 2:1). Not a preference. Not a personality trait. Sin. And most people think that only applies to obvious hatred, but it runs deeper than that. It reaches into who you welcome, who you avoid, who you listen to, and who you never even give a chance.
And here’s the part that hits hardest: you’re not just holding others at a distance, you’re holding yourself back.
“Where there is no counsel, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety” (Proverbs 11:14). If every voice in your life sounds the same, comes from the same place, sees the world the same way, you are cutting yourself off from growth. You’re choosing a smaller understanding when a larger one is right in front of you.
God resists that kind of smallness.
But when you step out—when you sit down with people who aren’t like you, when you listen instead of assuming, when you let your world get bigger—something happens. You start to see more clearly. You start to love more honestly. And you realize how much you didn’t know before.
It will humble you, but it will also free you.
So yes, I’m going to keep saying it.
Not because it’s popular. Not because it’s easy. But because if you ever break out of that narrow space—if you ever let God widen your heart—you will look back and be grateful someone didn’t let you stay there. I’ve changed people before and I will change more in the future.
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Lord, break down every wall in me that keeps me small; expose every hidden partiality, and lead me into a fuller love that reflects Your truth. Give me the humility to grow, and the courage to change. Amen.
BDD
