- From Ephesians 2
The whole point is that we're in this together. We started out together, and we are supposed to finish, together.
Don't you love the starting point of things? Everyone feels so unified and purposeful. I never felt closer to my cousins, than during the weeks following our Grandpa's death, and going through his funeral and the aftermath, together. In moments like this, vows are made, and commitments hardened.
Or the start of a marriage, or a new business venture . . . or the beginning of a new coach, or teacher, or career.
We're so resolved, at the beginning, to make it great.
But over the course of time, we drift. And the thing that seems to unravel the most, is our relationship to each other. Think about this: the great things, and the best moments, have us in unity. And everything is always going so well . . . until the relationship frays. And it's going to fray.
But God, like any parent, wants us all there, together. In the end, parents really don't care who'e right, who'r wrong, who started it, who touched whom . . . . they just want their kids to get along. It is such a joy to a parent, to see their kids laughing and enjoying one another.
God did it all for us . . . together.
And so, earlier on in Ephesians 10, there's a list of qualities of people that don't seem to be in it, with the rest of us. Let me extend the thought just a little bit, and make this a list of what is happening in the hearts of people that break our unity:
- Dead
- Sinful
- Trespasser
- Worldly
- Fleshly
- Driven by "what feels good"
And to wrap it all up - people that are out of control. They are the ones that end up breaking our bonds of unity.
Let's get together now, and not wait for God to force it upon us at the last day.
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