The value of the unity of God's people

There is a popular saying: 'Divide and conquer.' Many of us who lived the years of study in boarding schools (scholarship holders) in Cuba, had to put it into practice in a desperate attempt to survive, without realizing that we were part of a damaging plan with consequences that persist to this day. < ! - break ->

Divorced marriages, destroyed homes, children without parents and the list continues every day as a result of the disruption of the fundamental nucleus of society, the family. But this situation extends to other areas of our life and human relationships.

Those of us who are blessed to have known Christ are part of the family of God. The whole church is one great body of which Christ is the head. (1 Corinthians 12.12) We have our own life and the guidance of the Spirit, all the members are important and each one must fulfill the function for which he was destined, since God's work is everyone's problem.

There is no body that can function if each organ decides to act independently, all must be connected to each other to achieve harmony. (Romans 12.5) All parts of the body of Christ are important and no one cares less to do any type of work, even if it is a common job. (1 Corinthians 12.22-23).

I have seen the work of some brothers who serve the Lord with love doing the humblest work of service despised, however, it is precisely with these humble ones with whom Christ lived in the time that his ministry lasted, as the word in 1 Corinthians 1:28 says. "And the vile of the world and the despised God chose, and what is not, to undo what is."

High leaders should be the humblest servants in a church, because they were chosen by God to show the flock the attitude that a Christian with a vocation to serve others should have. They should be an example and are not set to receive, but to give, “so that there is no division in the body, but that its members care equally for one another. If one of the members suffers, the others share their suffering; and if one of them receives honor, the others rejoice with him ”(1 Cor 12: 25-26)

We thank God that although within God's people there are leaders who believe that leadership places them in a position of eminence that entitles them to an elitist status, there are also many servants of God today that none of this interrupts their work and They develop it with a positive spirit, with great enthusiasm, willing to go beyond what their strength gives them because they sustain themselves as seeing the Invisible. (Hebrews 11:27)

If anyone could feel closely what a united people was capable of achieving, it was Nehemiah, who managed to unite the people of God in a work for divine purposes, rebuilding, from its ruins, the walls of Jerusalem

The New Testament church is an indissoluble unit, we cannot lose sight of this. As the apostle Paul said: “… He is the head of the body, which is the church” (Colossians 1:18).

We are the members of the body of Christ, this forces us to stay united, to support one another and to be able to arrive before his presence, clean and healthy in spirit, according to his will.

Let us make Jesus' words our own: "Every kingdom divided against itself will be desolate, and every city or family divided against itself will not stand."

Suggested Reading: Nehemiah 3