When I think of the term ‘unity’, I feel that it is something often lacking in the Church, as a whole. I’m concerned that we have sometimes lost sight of our goal and purpose. That there is so much division that it would preclude unity from ever happening. But that’s what God has called us to. He has called us to be a unit. If we started to see ourselves as an army it might make that unity easier. For there is a fight to be waged, but it’s not with each other.
Ephesians 6:12: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].” We often lose sight of this. We end up fighting with people when we should be fighting the real fight on our knees against our real enemy—the devil. He would like nothing better than to cause division and discord within the Church of God. And He would like it best if we began to see our neighbor as a threat and forget that he even existed.
James 3:16: “For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.” Why does the devil like division caused by envy and strife? Well, because it allows him to begin to work his purpose in our lives. It allows him to bring ‘confusion and every evil work’. When we begin to squabble and nit-pick over petty differences it’s all the open door he needs to begin to bring down a group of believers who used to act as a unit.
1 Peter 3:8: “Finally, [be ye] all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous:” Being all of one mind means being all of the same purpose. There’s a unity of heart because there’s a unity of purpose. You don’t have just your own interests in mind, but the interests of the others in the group. And you are acting as a unit because you have those interests in mind.
Philippians 2:3: “[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.” When you consider others better than yourselves it creates a new dynamic within that group. It shifts from everyone working towards their own individual goals to becoming about working together for a greater goal than anyone could achieve by themselves. It’s not about doing what is right until it affects me. It’s about doing what is right regardless of how it affects me.
Ephesians 4:13: “Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:” I believe this is what God wants for us all, and this is what God wants for His Church. He wants us to begin to work together towards a common goal. That involves each of us helping each other to become more like Christ. And when we do that He will naturally draw one another together as a common unit.
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Ephesians 6:12: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].”
James 3:16: “For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.”
1 Peter 3:8: “Finally, [be ye] all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, [be] pitiful, [be] courteous:”
Philippians 2:3: “[Let] nothing [be done] through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.”
Ephesians 4:13: “Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:”