“By this all men will know that you are my disciples”
Most of us understand that people don’t have a great history of getting along with each other. The history of the world is one of fighting and winners and loosers. We fight over anything and everything, from territory to rights to ethnicity to religion.
If you ever wonder why God doesn’t run the world better, try running a company where all your employees can do whatever they want and you haven’t given yourself permission to just get rid of them. Now think of running the world with 6 billion people doing whatever they want, especially trying to run it themselves.
This was true in the Old Testament. Israel, God’s representatives, didn’t get along even with itself. Is any surprise that Congress, our representatives, can’t do any better? We’re a sorry lot.
With this in mind think of today’s scriptures. Jesus said the world will believe that God sent Him, to the degree that believers, not because they are coerced, but because they want to, actually get along with each other. That’s such a radical departure from all that we know, that it becomes an irresistible miracle! Especially so because they voluntarily get along, no one being fired or being cut from the team. Now that’s a witness that works.
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