"My brethren, do not hold your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ with an attitude of personal favoritism" (James 2:1)
"Personal favoritism" in the Greek could be translated literally, "to receive one's face". In other words, it is to take something at face value. It is to look at someone's face--someone's appearance, and to make a judgement based upon what you see. James tells us that faith in Jesus does not allow us to just "receive one's face". We are not to judge based on what we see (the external) but rather we are to judge based upon faith in what God is doing (the present internal work and the future potential fruit). "For there is no partiality (face-receiving) with God" (Romans 2:11).
Today, let me encourage us all to resist the easy way of judging appearances, and rather, to prayerfully consider the value of all that God may be up to in someone's life.
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