Over the past few months, we’ve had the priviledge of entertaining a number of different people each month for a week at a time. These individuals and couples, have been helping with the work in Tasmania for a month at a time, and have each taken a Monday to Friday to visit the works here in the Eyre Peninsula.

Most of these folks we barely know, and some we’ve never met before their arrival. They’ve all ranged in age and in personality, and yet each time it has been a blessing to have them staying with us, simply because we are united in our love for Christ.

What I’ve learned…

As I’ve been dealing with unity in Philippians chapter 2, I have made mention of a simple observation I’ve made about the work of God. As you look around any congregation, no matter what size, what you’ll find is a group of people who, by-in-large, have little or nothing in common. We have different backgrounds, different ambitions, different hobbies, and heaps of other variables that make us different, and yet the one thing we have in common is sufficient to bind us together and love each other — our relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ!

He is our one foundation. For each believer, “our lives are hid with Christ in God”. The blood of Christ has purchased us (1 Cor 6:20) and we’ve all been adopted into the one family — the body of Christ.

The Universal Truth

No matter where we go, if we meet a genuine believer, we have something in common which is enough to bind us in love. We may be different, even on some theolgical and social aspects; yet if we’re blood-washed, then we should work on that which will last throughout eternity — our love for one another.

Do you have any enemies in the household of faith? Is there strife between you and another child of God? Such marks is evidence of a lack of grace, and often of no grace whatsoever!

May God help us all to keep in tune with all of His children.