Churches have their favorite songs. I am familiar with one church that constantly
sang a chorus as an opening song-prayer to God, Bind us together, Lord, bind us
together...with cords that cannot be broken...Bind us together with love. The song is a longing for unity – so warm and
inviting. That church needed binding-together;
they had split several times in less than ten years.
The reality of division in a church, home or
office setting is cold and chilling to the bone. In disunity there is chaos and wandering. It makes little difference what preaching you
preach, or what songs you sing, if there is no willingness to actually be bound
together in love.
By contrast, in unity there is direction and
strength to spare. A young fellow had an
old jalopy. Getting around in a town
filled with hills was difficult. In
order to get up one of the steepest of these hills, the young man needed a
running start. As he approached the
bottom of the hill at full speed, trying to get up enough speed to make the
next hill, he saw two cars crossing the street he was on.
He calculated that if he slowed down just
enough for the first car to pass, he could gun his engine and make it in front
of the second car. The only
miscalculation was that he failed to notice the first car was towing the second
car!
He learned the hard way an important
theological lesson; it is very difficult to divide things that are bound
together.[1]
Are you in a divided household? A divided church? Chaos at the office? What privilege, what rights, what do possess,
and are willing to part-with, that will release the power of God’s Holy Spirit
on that situation? Hmmmm?
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