Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

I’ll have none of it, says Jesus. You are all one and none is different.

We label people and things. Do we like to be labeled? I am a Christian and that is an identity, I identify with Christ. Yet it is a label. The world calls me Christian as an insult because that label represents something dangerous to them. That is the danger in labels, that judgment is attached.

Hatred and resentments get attached to labels also. What one group means for good in their own label stirs up strong negative emotions in others. Same label, two opposing emotions. The label does no cause derision it only identifies it.

Daniel 7:28 Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me Daniel, my cogitations much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me: but I kept the matter in my heart.

Since Jesus is changing our countenance and it is a matter of the heart, of what use do labels serve? If I use a label with good intention, that use is no longer under my control, I’ve released it. I meant it for no harm but the wounds happen anyway.

Mark 3:25 And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

We are one body not a thousand labels.