Unity from Diversity!
Verse for Today: Saturday, July 20, 2013
Genesis 10:12 – These are the
clans of Noah’s sons, according to their lines of descent, within their
nations. From these the nations spread out over the earth after the flood.
God permitted the nations to spread
throughout the earth as part of His design. They descended from a godly
lineage, but eventually moved away from God and from each other. Man’s
immediate temptation was to stand on his own ability and rallied around clans,
languages, territories and nations with peculiar features and peculiarities. All
wanted to prove how each group was stronger and better than the other, and thus
promote human glory. But it all led man into idolatry and selfish ways of life.
In spite of such individualism and parochialism in man, God kept loving man and
gave him different ways to get back to Him over the centuries and ages. God’s
love pointed towards the sacrificial death of Jesus on the cross. God had
designed His prophetic plan for each nation in the world which was related to
how the nations feared God or rejected Him. He brought up choice men in all
ages to be His mouthpieces. Even as God spoke, sin abounded because man was
unwilling to turn to God in repentance. Several nations surrendered to the
whims of Satan and his evil forces and acted against God and His anointed. They
stood with Satan’s strategies to defeat the purpose of God in this world. It
has enhanced hatred, crimes, conflicts, promiscuity and other abominable sins and
made the world a difficult place to live. God’s children often get exasperated
about their life in the midst of such evil and wonder for how long these will
last. But God comes back to tell the world that things still move as per His design
for the world and that those who follow
His Word will enjoy the peace in all circumstances.
Dear friend, are you frustrated
about the increasing godlessness that is seen around you? Do you wonder how you
could live to please God in an evil environment? But God has given you the Holy
Spirit to lead you on His track based on His Word. The abomination that you
find around you is also foretold in the Word of God which speaks of a time when
the world order will go back to the evil times of Noah. But God has given His
children the grace to live a life that is pleasing to God in spite of
circumstances and the sinful environment. God also shows us that those who turn
to Him through Jesus Christ will be part of the great company of God’s children
from all nations, tribes, languages and races. They are the members of the
Church of God. Man diversifies and divides humanity because of sin, but God
unifies His children from their diverse differences to one body. Today they
meet in various groups all over the globe to worship in one spirit. But when
they meet together with their Lord in heaven, they will worship Him in one
language. All their differences will disappear at that time because they will
then be like their Lord. Of course, all who reject the offer of salvation by
God will spend all eternity in hell. But today God’s children have the
privilege to live for Him and to be the salt and light of the earth so that
others may be attracted to godliness. Today we experience the pain of diversity
and disunity, but on the day of redemption, we will experience perfect unity,
uniformity and unanimity. Today we live in a sinful environment of chaos and
confusion with very little peace, but when we meet with our Lord, we will be in
perfect peace and unexplainable joy. So let us not be frustrated about our
environment, but consider it a privilege to shed the light of God into the dark
alleys of this sinful world.
Revelation 5:9 - …because You
were slain, and with Your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and
language and people and nation.
Thought for Today
Today’s diversity will be turned
to unity, unanimity and uniformity when we see Jesus!
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