- From Psalm 51
Abraham Lincoln nice famously projected that the US could not be defeated by an outside invader. When and if we fall, it will be from the inside; because we could not hold our unity. He was willing to send hundreds of thousands of lives to certain death, in order to keep American united.
Benjamin Franklin said, to the Continental Congress, when deliberating our separation from England: "We have to hang together . . . or we will certainly hang separately."
Israel's twelve tribes could not hold it together, and piece by piece they fell. Gods chosen was easy prey . . . with no physical wall, and no spiritual wall based on unity, any aggressor could just waltz right in and take whatever he wanted.
But the United States do not need walls. We don't even need national unity. The two parties can carp and bicker all they want; a unified Church of Christ is sufficient to hold together the fabric of any culture.
It's almost like . . . the Christian Left wouldn't have to worry about President Trump's wall, if they took seriously Christ's plea that His Church stay united.
How many Christians does it take to keep a society safe, prosperous, just, merciful, and virtuous? Probably not many; like, maybe only about ten percent of the Church.
But we can't manage that. Believers, all the time, today, proudly proclaim their separation from other believers in the name of politics and party. No wonder God doesn't care about our "thoughts and prayers."
Unity is essential.
And then maybe families would get the point that you don't turn your back on brethren. And then we will be well on our way to solving our most troubling threats.
Jerusalem needed a wall. We need a wall. And unity builds it.
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