Friday,
August 18, 2023
How wonderful and pleasant it is when
brothers live together in harmony! For
harmony is as precious as the anointing oil that was poured over Aaron’s head, that
ran down his beard and onto the border of his robe. Harmony is as refreshing as the dew from
Mount Hermon that falls on the mountains of Zion. And there the Lord has pronounced
his blessing, even life everlasting. Psalm 133:1-3
Harmony produces
synergy. That’s when everything works
together to have a result which is greater than the sum of its’ individual
parts. The Psalmist tells us it’s a
wonderfully-pleasant reality. Most
people misunderstand its source, it’s a gift from God. The Psalmist compares Mt. Hermon’s misty-morning
dew, flowing-down as a gift over the blistering summer heat that parches the
entire region.[1] Without that refreshing dew falling on the
lower region of Zion’s hills, the scorched earth would produce famine and death. And, since humankind is not in charge of the
earth’s atmosphere or weather, it is the hand of the Creator (Jehovah-Jireh) which provides
that misty life-saver.
It is so with
harmony. One individual human being’s
decision to work-together is simply that – one unselfish decision. To have even the slightest chance of germinating
into harmony requires the cooperating touch of another. But even a crowd of cooperators, working like
carpenter ants, cannot produce genuine harmony without the dew of God’s
gift.
Much like Colonel
Sanders’ fried-chicken venture, the chicken, flour, spices, frying pan, and cornflakes
were already there; but it wouldn’t have synergized into that wonderful original
and crispy, unless the white-bearded man put them together.
In a greater
way, God designed human life to be saturated with this gift of harmony, soaked
with kindness, forbearance, generosity, patience, joy, peace, gentleness, and
love. The opposite is selfishness,
impatience, greed, petulance, anger, violence, crudeness, and isolation; these
are known by their common name, sin.
For You Today
Living
together in harmony is something of a delicate art, as tenuous as thinking two
cats with their tails tied-together will be able to keep their cool more than 3
seconds.
But God made
it possible for us to dwell together in peace as families, neighborhoods,
countries, races, and any other diverse complication in the universe, with
another kind of “dew” that drips down from Golgotha, the precious blood of
Jesus Christ. This is the gift of
ultimate synergy for the soul, and it is the only solution that will bring peace
in this lifetime or eternity!
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[1] The Biblical Illustrator, Electronic Database© 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
