While driving near the church building a few days ago, I saw a license plate consisting of a message to all other
motorists: U MATTER. I would have thought it was a remarkable message even if it had not been surrounded by a
metal strip that said, Pittsburgh Steelers (which always lends a touch of class to a vehicle).
Probably a certain Harvard senior would disagree with the message on the license plate. On June 30th, she
posted a video in which she says, “The next person who has the sheer nerve, the sheer entitled caucasity
[a term referring to white privilege] I’ma stab you, I’ma stab you, and while you’re struggling and bleeding out, I’m going
to show youmy paper cut and say my cut matters too.” No, actually she was not Black. Okay, she got a little dramatic, but
she’s probably not really going to stab anyone. We don’t know what qualifies her to be such an expert. Chances are she got
the idea from one of her intellectual professors, who made a similar invalid comparison.
The subject is too complex to analyze in a short space, and the person with the message on the license plate
obviously knew nothing about such a recent incident—threat or no threat. However, the phrase in question expresses
something that God consistently tries to communicate to us. In Genesis 1:26-28, He taught us that human beings are
made in His image. Does not that imply that every individual matters? Unfortunately, we can waste all of the good
qualities He endowed us with, such as was the case in Genesis 6:5, when every imagination of the heart was only evil
continually. In the midst of an evil world, God still finds good souls like Enoch, Noah, or Abraham. Consider all of those
who obeyed the gospel on Pentecost and afterward. Many are still being converted all over the world.
Isn’t the message of John 3:16 that every individual matters to God? He is not willing that any should perish (2
Peter 3:9). God desires that all men be saved and “come to a knowledge of the truth” (1 Tim. 2:4). This is the reason
that, for the Christian, race is not a barrier to the spreading of the Gospel. Men from all races and nationalities preach
the gospel. People from all races, nations, and genders obey the gospel. Any Christian’s desire (no matter what background)
is to help bring about what is spiritually best for others. Love helps accomplish that goal; anger and rage help
no one. All souls are precious to the Heavenly Father.