What if I told you unity is what gives you community? How many people are lacking community in the body of Christ, not realizing they have no community because they do not have unity. Oh my friends, the Lord is so good in correcting us up, we as the church are divided in so many ways. We are demoninationally divided and it plays out in conversations on social media that amplifies the divide, because so many voices are revealing the divide by the comments they make when someone says something they oppose or vehemently disagree with. This should not be.

The body of Christ is to be unified, not uniformed, but unified. Our unity is what makes us a community. To be in unity we must lay down our lives for our friends, for Jesus said, not greater love than this, than you lay down your lives for your friends. Now I am not asking for corporate, national or international unity, not yet, but what if we could be unified with one person in our life?

Psalm 133 says, “Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!” Good means pleasing, joyful, delightful, beautiful and pleasant means sweet, pleasure, agreeable, lovely, singing, sounding, musical. This means unity is a song we sing and sound others hear. The psalmist goes on to say, “For there the LORD has commanded the blessing, life forevermore.” This means the blessing of unity is life forevermore. Life means fresh, strong, springing up, community. Unity is what blesses us with community; it keeps us strong and fresh; alive and flowing.

I exhort you to find one person you can be unified with, then find another two, three or four you can be unified with, eventually we may have a whole church that is unified, then the body of Christ might one day be unified. Jesus’ prayer in John 16 is that we would be one as He and His Father are one. Unity is being one with God and one with each other and there is a blessing in it we have not actualized, at least not yet. Unity is community and it is a blessing.