Exodus 12:43-51: in context

As God gives the rules for the Passover, he addresses the question of the foreigner. The Passover was for Israel, but a stranger living among them who wished to keep it was not shut out. If he and his household were circumcised, joining themselves to the covenant, then he could keep the Passover and, God says, he shall be as one who is born in the land. One law shall be to him who is born at home and to the stranger who lives among you. The included stranger was given not a lesser place but equal standing, as one native-born.

The provision for the stranger is notable for the equal standing it grants. The foreigner who joined himself to God's covenant people was not admitted as a second-class member, tolerated at the margins, but given full and equal standing: he shall be as one who is born in the land; one law for the native and the stranger. The once-outsider, having joined himself to God, was made a full member of the covenant people, equal with those born into it. God's covenant was not a closed circle of bloodline into which the outsider could only be partially admitted; it was open to all who would join themselves to God, and those who came in were given equal standing. This points to a truth that reaches its fullness in Christ. God's people were never meant to be a closed ethnic circle but were always open to the outsider who would join himself to God, and to grant the included equal standing. And in Christ, this openness is fulfilled: those who were once far off, strangers to the covenant, are brought near and given full and equal standing among God's people. You are no longer strangers and foreigners, Paul says, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God. In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek; all who are his are one, given equal standing as God's own. This is a comfort for all who might feel like outsiders, and a call to welcome others as God does. It comforts those who feel they do not belong, who feel like strangers to God's people, far off, second-class: in Christ, those who join themselves to God are given full and equal standing, not a lesser place but the standing of the native-born, full members of God's household. And it calls us to welcome others with the same equal regard, not treating any who come to God as second-class, marginal, or lesser, but receiving them as full members, equal in Christ. The stranger who kept the Passover was to be as one born in the land, one law for all; and in Christ, all who come to God are given equal standing, so that we both find our full place among God's people and welcome others into the same equal belonging, receiving the once-outsider as a full member, as God receives all who join themselves to him.

Do I feel like an outsider to God's people, far off or second-class, or do I treat others who come to God as marginal or lesser, and can the provision that the stranger who joined himself to the covenant was to be as one born in the land, with one law for native and foreigner, together with the truth that in Christ those once far off are given full and equal standing as members of God's household, assure me of my full place among God's people and move me to welcome others into the same equal belonging?