Unity

Unity

My Question for God

Is real unity with others possible?

A Moment with God

The body has many different parts, not just one part.

1 Corinthians 12:14

Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace.

Ephesians 4:3

One of the keys to unity is to celebrate each other’s differences. Unity is not about everyone agreeing or having the same opinion. It’s about learning how to take different opinions and direct them all toward a shared purpose and goal. God creates everyone differently, so we should not be surprised by differences of opinion. But God also tells us to be united, which means that our differences must serve some important goal, that of bringing about the most thoughtful, well-developed plans.

Unity usually becomes difficult to achieve when we’re already convinced that our opinion is the best and therefore someone else’s opinion is not well thought through. This mind-set keeps us from listening to new ideas that might actually inform our own opinion for the better. We risk missing out on a potential divine moment in which God helps us see how different colors create a richer painting. Try celebrating and truly anticipating each others’ differences and fitting them together to accomplish an objective. Then you will experience the true unity God designed humans to share and enjoy.

Divine Promise

You are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 3:26-28