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Unity is important in music. It’s very important when several instruments are being played for them all to be in the same key. It is also very important for them to be on the same rhythm. Our Church needs to be unified or it will sound disjointed and out of tune. We need to be unified and have the same purpose and the same love for Christ.
If I had a room full of pianos, how would I tune them? Would I start at the first piano and tune it, then tune the next piano by the first and so on? No, I would have a tuning fork and tune every piano to that perfect pitch of the tuning fork.
Unity is not all of us trying to be like each other and to just “do our best” to love each other. We don’t tune ourselves to each other. We tune ourselves to Jesus Christ. If we can accomplish this then we each would be in harmony with each other.
We remember Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, the night before he went to the Cross, just a few hours before he was about to be taken away by Judas and the Roman guard. We know Jesus prayed alone that night in John chapter 17.
- Verses 1-5: Jesus prays for his own strength and power
- Verses 6-19: He prays for the disciples that were sleeping in the garden
- Verses 20-26: He prays for all the believers that were to come in the future – HE PRAYS FOR US!
Perhaps Jesus Looked all the way through the passages of time and looked at your face, and saw the great things you could do for Him. The people who could get saved through you, the lives that could be changed through you. You have great potential, you have a gift that you need to share.
One thing Jesus knew we would need is unity.
John 17:20-23 says, Neither pray I for these alone,(Disciples) but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;(Us) That they all may be one;(Unity) as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.(With unity we can see the world changed and people saved) And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: (We are to be as one with God and each other) I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.(God loves us just like he loves Jesus)
Our Church will never make the impact on this world that God has for us without unity. When a visitor comes in that is not yet a believer, they look at us and at how we treat each other to see if we are unified. The disciples, before Jesus’s death, were not unified. They were constantly bickering and fighting over the dumbest stuff like who would be the greatest Christian. There were many other instances where they fought. Jesus prayed for them to be unified.
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. – John 13:35
We are supposed to love each other. You may be sitting here saying “well, no one hear loves me so why should I love them?”
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. – John 13:34
God commands us to love one another and be in unity. Let’s reject division, and pursue unity fiercely.
Christians are like snowflakes, alone we may be fragile and seemingly insignificant, but if we can get together, we can stop traffic.