You and I are not the same. You come from a different background, different social class, different continent, different economic situation, and a host of other differences. You and I would likely not know or engage with one another out in the world. But isn’t that how it is for just about everyone, differences separate us.

I remember moving to Boerne, Texas and enrolling our boys in school wondering how things would go. Bryson was in the 7^th grade and was just starting athletic competition in school. Not knowing anyone, he showed up, not from here and not knowing anyone, and yet he found friends almost immediately when it was found that he was like them in the athletic arena.

“¹³But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. ¹⁴For he himself is our peace, who has made us both one and has broken down in his flesh the dividing wall of hostility ¹⁵by abolishing the law of commandments expressed in ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace, ¹⁶and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the cross, thereby killing the hostility.” – Ephesians 2:13-16 (ESV)

We may be different you and me. But we are alike in Christ. Jesus made it possible for us to find commonality. He is out commonality. Jesus is our likeness. Our difference is on the surface, yet in the heart, we are the together. We have the same common goal and the same common home to get to.

No matter how different we are, we are able to find the commonality in Christ. Jesus came and died for my sins and yours alike. We are not better than one another. We are sinners in need of a savior and that savior, thankfully for us both is Jesus. We have Him in common and that brings us together. We are together in Christ.

What is your commonality to others? Are you looking at others as different because the do not look like you? What if you were to look inward and find the commonality with others in Jesus sacrificial love for you both?