Fairest?

Remember the Wicked Queen in the story of Snow White, and her famous question of the mirror?

Mirror, mirror, on the wall,
Who’s the fairest of them all?

Of course, the only acceptable answer to her was that SHE was the fairest. When she learned that Snow White was the most beautiful maiden in the land, she set out to destroy her.

Unfortunately, in our dog-eat-dog world, we still can find people who look in their mirror and ask who in their kingdom is the “fairest of them all.” Some of these insecure and jealous people, who have set themselves up to gain the adulation of others, will do all they can to rid their tiny realms of anyone who is brighter, or more beautiful, or more popular, or more ___________. (You add the quality.)

Those of us who live in the Kingdom of God, come with insecurities and jealousies of our own too. We look at each other as competitors rather than as brothers and sisters, or as other parts of the Body of Christ. God has so designed us that He has arranged a place for all of us. No one can take the place of another. No one need feel insecure.

In fact, the Apostle Paul said in Galatians 6:4,

Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else.

When we realize all that God has given us and the secure place in which He has set us, we can get down to the reason we live, which is to say,

Fairest Lord Jesus, Ruler of all nature,
Son of God and Son of Man!
Thee will I cherish, Thee will I honor,
Thou, my soul’s glory, joy, and crown.

—Münster Gesangbuch