Choose Unity

Look at the word CHOOSE. Notice “OO” is together. When they are together, in unity, they make a specific, special sound. If we were to take an” O” out, we would end up with CHOSE. A completely different word with a completely different meaning. I know this is not being read for an English class, however there is a biblical principle here. Often times we, as individual Christians want to do things ourselves, our own way, and figure things out ourselves. We struggle with, what the Bible calls, unity.

         We must learn the fact that the Christian life is about others, not self. While we need to work on ourselves, we do it for the benefit of others. We must be like Jesus. He came to this world, not to be served, but to serve. He came, not to be given things, but to give himself for others. This is why we find in John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

We need God. He also created us to need each other, He gave Adam, Eve. He gave Elijah, Elisha. He gave David, his thirty mighty men. He gave Daniel, the three other Hebrew boys. He gave Jesus, the twelve disciples. He gave the seventy disciples that went out before Him each other as He sent them out by twos. He gave Barnabas, Saul. He gave Saul, later Paul, Silas, Timothy, and other New Testament churches. Do you see the pattern. Rarely does God use only one person all on their own to accomplish great things for Him. He almost always uses two or more people. This is even why where two or three are gathered together in the name of Jesus, he is there in the midst. We need God. We need each other. We miss a true blessing when we do not work in unity with others. Choose to be the other “O” to someone. Work in unity and chOOse to make a specific, special sound for God.