Wednesday... So, let's do it and see what happens...

Wednesday... So, let's do it, let's do it as Christians and see what happens.

Psalm 133:1 (NIV) says, "How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity!" The MESSAGE says, "How wonderful, how beautiful, when brothers and sisters get along."

What could happen if we as God's people were unified during this time we are in? What could happen? What could God do if we lived out His purpose in unity?

Read the book of Exodus and see what happens when God's people are not in unity. It took them 40 years to get to see God's Promised Land. They could have had what God wanted for them but they complained even from the beginning. What could have happened? They lived in and many of them died in the wilderness instead of in the Promised Land.

This is such a difficult time for the church. It is so divided. "How wonderful, and how beautiful, when brothers and sisters get along."

Exodus 6:6-9 (MSG), "'I am God. I will bring you out from under the cruel hard labor of Egypt. I will rescue you from slavery. I will redeem you, intervening with great acts of judgment. I'll take you as my own people and I'll be God to you. You'll know that I am God, your God who brings you out into the land that I promised to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and give it to you as your own country. I AM GOD.' But when Moses delivered this message to the Israelites, they didn't even hear him..."

It is so easy to have outside situations and outside voices divide us so that we don't even hear God. And that is Satan's plan. He knows what God wants to do through us so he strives to sidetrack us and divide us. Let's be unified in doing what God wants to do. We need to be on our knees praying that God would unify us to do what He wants.

Psalm 133:1 (NIV), "How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity!" And then verse 3b, "For there the Lord bestows his blessing, even life forevermore." And that is what we want, isn't it? Then, let's get together doing what God wants! Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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