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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Unity is a Gift From God

Unity is an unconditional, God-given gift of bonding, which transcends the natural circumstances, in defiance of the odds and values

of man that would dictate what should be otherwise. Unity is the power of God’s love in us that moves and convicts us to obey God because of a higher purpose than our own fulfillment, comfort, or pleasure. It is the power to do the right thing, for the right reason because only God’s power can unite people with each other. Agreeing with God changes the outcome of what is impossible or more difficult otherwise. Unity can not be wrought in the flesh, if it is spiritual unity, but only in the Spirit. What is ultimately birthed in the Spirit and must be completed in the Spirit, and manifested in the natural, is in proportion to the changes we are willing to allow God to do in us, in our hearts and minds, and also within our wills.

The forces of evil are arrayed all around us. They do so in part because of willful souls desiring something other than righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit, which can only be found in the Kingdom of God. When we seek a kind of unity that is not kingdom unity we are in reality saying to God, “No, we don’t want your kind of unity. We know best what we need. We’ve got it all worked out, and it’s all taken care of God. Thanks, but no thanks. We’ve got everything under control.” Yet that knawing feeling that things aren’t quite like God really wants them to be, seems to hang over a situation and we simply accept that which is less than God’s best and go on. Often what God allows within our dominion is not desirable within His sovereignty, wisdom, and holiness.

It is the image of God that is always reflected in Godly unity. If any other image is reflected, it isn’t God’s unity. It is a deceptive counterfeit. We must be extremely careful, prayerful, and timely in our discerning if we are to be truly unified as couples, families, churches, organizations, ministries, and communities. Relationships are the vehicles which God uses to create, deliver, establish, grow, develop, and prosper unity.

Self seeking preservation has no place in God’s definitions of security in kingdom leadership. Every precept of God’s holy and divine truths must be sought, accepted, embraced, and life-changing in order for us to be prepared to walk in unity. Our hearts, minds, and wills must be continually transformed by God’s truths in order for God’s will to be done in unity.

The ultimate questions become: Do we thirst? Do we really desire? Are we motivated?

Are we willing to persevere, and sacrifice, and die to what we want? Are we willing to take up the cause of Christ daily and die to ourselves? What will we do? The challenge is ours. He is all we need; and He is everything we must have, and can’t afford to minimize in order for the imperative and priority of unity to be made manifest. Let Christ reign today and may our personal lives, relationships, and ministries prosper the way God really intended for them to be. The call is clear: UNITY IS GOD’S HEART!