This weekend I ran in the Rock n Roll marathon. Some family members organized a run in the half marathon that I was a part of. The run was in San Antonio, Tx and my sister and I left a day early to visit the Hill Country first.
On our way to Fredericksburg, we stopped in San Antonio so that I could pick up my run packet. I knew Saturday would be swampped and twenty five thousand individuals would all be trying to get their packet.
As I walked in, I was blessed to have a speedy check-in. I walked through the Expo and was immediately humbled when I saw all the military camo uniforms picking up their packets. The realization of San Antonio being a military base city hit me at that moment. In fact, I have a cousin in the Air Force.
I felt like such a "seed" in this garden of individuals that I felt were so much bigger than me. I wanted to stop and thank everyone of them. The swell of pride rose in me to think that I would be running with these men and women who fight every day to give me my freedom.
I thought "how cool" that I would have that opportunity. Uniforms everywhere!
Event day day came and guess what....we all looked the same. Running shirts, shorts, tennis shoes, headbands, water bottles...everyone looked the same. I asked myself "Where are the military people?" I could not identify them or pick them out. Where are those who fight for our freedom?
It hit me at that moment that in life, we are all different. Some are affluent-some live in poverty; some are well educated-some are not; some are homeless-some are not. The importance of that is that in God's eyes, we are all the same.
In the Expo, we could identify those in the military by their uniform, but in the race, we were all the same with one mission in mind, complete the race.
God does not see us as different. We are all the same in his eyes and one day when we all meet in heaven, we will not have our opulence or poverty, we won't have our degrees or medals, we won't have our uniforms or any other identifiers.
In God's eyes, we will only be the individual He created.
God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27
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