What can we accomplish alone?
Nothing.
Live Second
Written by Doug Bender
I am blogging about Unity from the Live Second Devotional book written by Doug Bender.
(Day 7: Unity on page 51)
My husband and I have been heavily involved in our church’s Christmas program. We have a production team and a host of actors, lighting crew, computer crew, directors, lighting crew, stage hands, parents, seamstresses, make up artists, and a host of others making up an intricate team.
Being behind the scenes made me look at how each person in this Christmas program has an important part to play to make it successful. I work as part of the computer ministry in my church. We make sure that the narration slides are up and incorporate videos on the big screens to make sure that there no black holes shown during transitions of actors going on and off stage. The program was a great success because everyone worked together like a hand fitting in a glove.
When you are a part of a team it’s not about me it’s about us. Sometimes we don’t agree on everything but we always try to work it out so that everyone agrees. It’s not easy but that what unity represents, it represents working together, caring and having concern.
For example, I would not say I want the transitions to be this way, if the director would like to have it another way. The director has a vision and it is my job to make that vision work. If I think advice can be made to enhance the vision, then I will say so.
God’s love engulfs us and never leaves us or forsakes us.
In the Live Second devotional, this scripture is so revealing of how we have to be unified to truly be effective in the body of Christ.
My prayers is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one-I in them and you in me-so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
(John 17:20-34)
I have to be loving to everyone I meet, with love because my actions speak louder than words. If I do not treat my husband and family with love how can I be kind to a stranger?
How are you unifying relationships?
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