Being Impartial

“They divided them impartially by drawing lots, for there were officials of the sanctuary and officials of God among the descendants of both Eleazar and Ithamar.” 1 Chronicles 24:5

George Orwell describes how his education included not just fields of study, but also biases against those of different social status:

“When I was fourteen or fifteen, I was an odious little snob, but no worse than other boys of my own age and class. I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school.

Here at least one cannot say that English “education” fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school—I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet—but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave.”

The Lord is impartial and desires us to also to be free of prejudice.

Confess any sin of prejudice and thank the Lord that He is impartial to all people.

Prejudice is a disease caused by hardening of the categories. William Arthur. W.

But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. James 3:17