We are not one person; we are many. If we were one, we would, theoretically be in agreement. But because we are many, we have many ideas and each likes his idea best. So there is discord at best and often conflict sometimes leading to violence at worst. Between Joe and Dennis for example. Between JB and TS. Between day shift workers and night shift. Sometimes between true loves Ruth and Steve. Between Jew and Arab, privileged kid and slumdog. Between God and Satan, God’s people (who are, btw, too often in conflict with each other) and the enemy’s people. Perhaps even between different voices in the same mind. But we are called to be one spirit as believers, with the graphic one-flesh picture in marriage as a model.
Not enforced communist, seven-of-nine, Orwellian, no-personality one, but one in harmony, purpose, and love, all expressing our individuality as we look to our same creator and redeemer, fight the same enemy, build the same Kingdom. Hmmm. August 18, 2009
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