In Christ - Galatians 3:28

 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. - Galatians 3:28

    “. . . in Christ . . . .” We sometimes overlook the importance, the value, even the significance of those words. We get caught up in the day-to-day chaos that envelops our lives and we lose track of who we have become - who we really are. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” - 2 Corinthians 5:17.  A new creation. We are no longer what we were; we are now what we have become in Christ! Gone are the old ways. Despite worldly pressure to go along to get along we have risen above the world as believers in the one Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We are above the dog-eat-dog world we live in. We are no longer separated by desire but united in our desire for God.  It is the one thing we all have in common with one another - in Christ.
    Physicality, ethnicity, color, ability, nationality mean nothing to the true children of God for we are “all one in Christ Jesus.” If we could just for a moment take off the worldly glasses we so often wear we would see that we are one in common with each-other. Gone are the differences instituted by God Himself in Genesis - “‘Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.’”  So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.” - Genesis 11:7-9.
    From that very moment mankind was the quintessential example of disunity and no where in all of holy scripture is mankind ever reunited except in Christ. “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.” - Galatians 3:26.   
    It is in Christ Jesus that we are again reunited as one family in God; and that in Him we have our heavenly reward and not through any human effort. We have no brothers and sisters outside the common bond of faith in Jesus Christ. “Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?” - 2 Corinthians 6:14-15. Let us always remember it is by grace alone and faith alone that we enjoy our relations ship with our fellow brothers and sisters . . . in Christ alone.