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I saw a man on a red old tractor, and I didn’t know about his past.  He may have done something really bad... really wicked... really evil.  Or he may have had

righteousness in his past.  He may have been an elder and was actively serving God and His church.  I didn’t know about that man’s past, but I do know this... I do know this: There’s no shade of difference in the love of God for that man.  What ever his past was, God loves that man just the same.

 

I saw a man on a red old tractor.  I didn’t know what his future would be like.  I didn’t know if he was an entrepreneur.  Perhaps he was buying up farms and someday he’s going to have this large farming corporation.  Or maybe he was just a hired hand, lucky to be living in a small mobile home when he retires... as it sits on the

periphery of the farmstead where he’s worked most all his life.  I didn’t know about that man’s future, I really didn’t, but I do know this... I do know this: Which ever way it is.  Whatever lies in his future, God loves that man the same.  There’s no variation or difference.

 

I saw a man on a red old tractor.  I couldn’t see his hands.  I saw them on the steering wheel, but I couldn’t see them close up.  I didn’t know if they were calloused, worn, and hard because of hard work with bailing twine, mending fences, and doing hard farm work. Or maybe his hands were soft because he was just one of these hobby farmers out for a day of play.

 

I didn’t see his feet.  I don’t know if he had feet, to be honest.  Perhaps he had to be helped up on the tractor that day, I didn’t know if he had feet.  But I do know this... I do know this: Whether that man could run like the wind or whether he was disabled and needed help to do his chores, God loves that man the same.  It makes no

difference how physically able he was, there was no shade or difference in God’s love for him.

 

I saw a man on a red old tractor.   And I didn’t know if he had gone through a death in his family.  He may have lost his wife or his child, I didn’t know.  He may have been angry with God because of the death of someone close to him.  Or he may have been like my friend Steve who went into the ministry and he once told me that he had the hardest time sympathizing with those who lost someone in death

because he never had. 

 

I didn’t know if this man had just lost someone close to him, or not.  I Couldn’t know if he were angry with God, or blessed like my friend Steve who had not suffered the pains of losing someone close.  I didn’t know...  But I do know this...  I do know this: God loves that man just the same.  No shade of difference in God’s love.

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