The necessary unit

There is an African proverb that says: "The union of the herd forces the lion to go to bed hungry." It is an illustration that to a certain extent suits us. He who walks like a “roaring lion looking for someone to devour” continues to feast on the very grounds that Christ won with his precious blood so that, far from being eaten, we would have an abundant life. Every day the world seems to drift more and more and we Christians walk disunited. Divided kingdoms end in failure. Each Christian organization, conscious or not, fattens its own philosophy and rejects or questions the others. The truth is that we ourselves are the ones who in many ways cause the extension of the Kingdom to be further delayed. We all know it, but few dare to approach the subject from the essence of the divine perspective. Without the necessary unity we will take too long to reach the lost world.

The art of winning is learned in defeats, said a South American hero; and the Christian people in all latitudes should not doubt that unity is biblical and the aspiration of all. God speaks today exhorting us to “strive to preserve the unity of the Spirit” (Ephesians 4: 3), to build his church with the gifts imparted by the Spirit “until we all come to the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God … To the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ ”(Ephesians 4:13).

God wants us to unite. Unity is not only a requirement for the fulfillment of the Great Commission, but it is also like the watchtower that makes visible to the wicked, the testimony of a living hope, the glorious longing of a Christ who comes and that, when this happens, we He will ask why we were not more diligent in seeking the desired unity. According to the Lausanne Pact (Congress for World Evangelization, 1974) "the visible unity of the church in truth is the purpose of God."

Adam sinned when Eve fed him. He was not deceived (1 Tim 2:14), rather he was aware of his participation in sin by disobeying God's command. The teaching for us today is that although Satan is the tempter, it is we who sin, therefore we are not justified to deny our identity in Christ by continually falling into the depths of the first Adam. On the subject of Christian unity, Satan continues to tempt us over and over again.

When we look at the world today in the spiritual order we could imagine the Sodom described in Genesis 19, so girded with sin and the wickedness of men. But that is no longer news to anyone, the bad thing is that we have become used to looking at evil and we do not feel the need to denounce it. Christ had no qualms about confronting the injustices of his time and the hypocritical actions of the religious leaders who said one thing and in practice did another. Our divisions are not only painful, but sinful. The threads that are woven according to such doctrinal and philosophical arguments within these divisions weaken the body of Christ. The first offended, I suppose, must be God himself.

The Lord continues to walk through the garden and asks us where we are. The garden (or orchard) is like a symbol of the unity that He longs for all His people ... but sometimes there is fear, because there is a certain nudity that we do not want to exhibit. The lack of unity among Christians resembles that nakedness. I would not want to hide like Adam the next day the Lord asks. I want to be in your garden. And you, what are you going to answer him? My prayer is that we can, sooner rather than later, meet there. God bless you!