Good morning
Zebras,
God has had me
thinking a lot lately about what it means to be a “team.” When I went to get my favorite passage on the
subject to paste into this z-mail I found this heading: “Friends and Family Can
Help One Another in Life,” which is so true.
Ecclesiastes
4:9–12: Two are better than one, because
they have a good reward for their toil. For
if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and
has not another to lift him up! Again,
if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one
who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
But what does
it take to be a strong cord of three?
Honestly, trust, humility, sacrifice and love, all qualities given to us
by the Holy Spirit.
Jesus made it
possible to believers to walk in unity.
John 17:23: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let
the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me.
But people need
to make it happen. Under the manmade
title of “Unity Through Humility.”
Philippians
2:1–4:...but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own
interests, but also to the interests of others.
We act like
thinking of others is a huge sacrifice, but it isn’t, it’s what Jesus did for
us.
Spiritual unity
isn’t a pipedream like world peace. It’s
real and it’s possible and it’s worth working for.
Here is a Psalm,
written by David, that extols the blessings of living in harmony with
others. I found it on “accident” when I
searched the Bible for the word “unity.”
Psalm 133: How good and pleasant it is when brothers live
together in unity! It is like precious
oil poured on the head, running down on the beard, running down on Aaron’s
beard, down upon the collar of his robes.
It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount Zion. For there the Lord
bestows his blessing, even life forevermore.
Love,
Jill
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