Together part 1
I think one of the biggest truths that Jesus came to show us--He IS the truth, after all... what's true about Him is true about you--is one that we have a really hard time grasping. And that truth is that we are all in this together. Let me say it like this, "And we are members of his body" (Ephesians 5:30 NLT). One body, lots of members. One New Man. One new creature. Watch this, "And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh" (Ezekiel 11:19). One Spirit. One heart. The Father's heart beating with love in our chests. There's no Jew or Greek. No male of female. There's just... us. We are One. Jesus said, "I and my Father are one" (John 10:30). He came to get rid of any sense, or any idea, of seperation between God and man. How could there be seperation between God and man when God lives IN man? And let me bring this around to where I always end up anyway: How could there be seperation between LOVE and man when LOVE lives in man? That's not just what God does. That's who God is. God is love. So anytime we're talking about God, we're talking about love. When we're talking about Jesus we're talking about God in the flesh, love in a body. God in OUR flesh. Love in OUR body. Because we are HIS body! We are all in this together, and when we work together it all comes together! Because even though we have an unction from the Holy Ghost and we know all things, we don't understand everything we know. And some of the things I don't understand, you do. So when we SHARE our understanding--instead of using it to build walls that (you got it) seperate us--when we share that understanding then we learn and grow. We mature. "Till we all come in the unity of 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" (Ephesians 4:13). Did you catch that? Until WE come into the unity of faith, which is the knowledge of the Son, A perfect man. WE are A new man. Because WE are Jesus. Before the cross the Holy Spirit lived in ONE human body. Then through the cross the Spirit was poured out on all flesh. Now He dwells in ALL human bodies. We aren't just in this together because we all live on the earth. We are in this together because we are connected by that Spirit. We are connected by love. Love is what binds and holds everything together. Love is where we can connect with each other--Spirit to Spirit, holy to holy. The Jesus in me connects to the Jesus in you and that's where we find our bond. We can let differences drive us apart OR we can celebrate them. We can try to get people to be who they're not and force them to find things in common with us, or we can teach people about who they really are. We can fill them up with the love that we are full of and watch it flow out of them naturally! We can try to do it ourselves (and fail), or we can work together!