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Wednesday... There is so much more. There really is!


Psalm 133:1 (NIV), "How good and pleasant it is when God's people live in unity."

Wednesday... There is so much more. There really is!

I don't really think we understand how much more there is for us. God wants to do so much more through us.


David writes in Psalm 133:1 (NIV), "How good and pleasant it is when God's people live in unity." And that is such a great place to start. The Message says, "How wonderful, how beautiful, when brothers and sisters get along." And that is so true.

Proverbs 13:3 (AMP) says, "The one who guards his mouth [thinking before he speaks] protects his life; the one who opens his lips wide [and chatters without thinking] comes to ruin."

And verse 2 (MSG) says, "The good acquire a taste for helpful conversation; bullies push and shove their way through life." And there are bullies in the church.

Paul in his first letter to the Corinthian church says in 2:1-3 (NLT), "Dear brothers and sisters, when I was with you I couldn't talk to you as spiritual people. I had to talk as though you belonged to this world or as though you were infants in Christ. I had to feed you with milk, not with solid food, because you weren't ready for anything stronger. And you still aren't ready, for you are still controlled by your sinful nature. You are jealous of one another and quarrel with each other. Doesn't that prove you are controlled by your sinful nature?"

These people were arguing over the leaders they followed, the one who was most important. In verses 7-9 Paul says, "It's not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What's important is that God makes the seed grow. The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose. And both will be rewarded for their own hard work. For we are both God's workers. And you are God's field."

In verses 18-23 (MSG) he says, "Don't fool yourselves that you can be wise merely by being relevant. Be God's fool - that's the path to true wisdom. What the world calls smart, God calls stupid. It is written in Scripture, He exposes the hype of hipsters. The Master sees through the smoke screens of the know-it-alls. I don't want to hear any of you bragging about yourselves or anyone else. Everything is already yours as a gift - Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, the present, the future - all of it is yours, and you are privileged to be in union with Christ, who is in union with God."

There is so much more through our union with Christ who is in union with God. There really is. And "How good and pleasant it is when God's people live in unity." Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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