Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Dionne Warwick singing … What the World Needs Now … lovingly singing of what this divided world needs now … as it did back in the 1960s when the song was released.
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Highlight Passage : … 1 Corinthians 1:10 [ESV] ... 10 I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
… Paul pleas with fellow Christians in Corinth (and everywhere) to unite and have the same mind in their love of Christ.
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Highlight Passage [Context] : … 1 Corinthians 1:10-17 [ESV] ... USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Paul, appeals to fellow Christians to unite in their common bond in Christ’s love.
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Reference Passage : … Psalm 133:1 [ESV] … 1 Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!
… King David sings of the bond of unity that God’s people have in our Lord’s love.
Reference Passage : … John 13:34-35 [ESV] … 34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
… Jesus commands His disciples (and that’s us too!) to come together in our love for Him and His love for us all.
Reference Passage : … Philippians 2:1-2 [ESV] … 1 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind.
… Paul exhorts fellow Christians to come together in the joy of Christ’s love.
Reference Passage : … Colossians 3:12-14 [ESV] … USE THIS LINK …
… God, thru Paul, calls His Church to unite in the love of Christ.
Reference Passage : … 1Peter 3:8 [ESV] … 8 Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.
… Peter joins Paul to call on God’s people - the Church - to humble ourselves have unity in the mind of Christ.
My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Kirsten Holmberg, AT THIS LINK uses the curious geographic division in the community of Texarkana [see photo], divided by a borderline between two States (AR and TX), to illustrate how a community of people must come together, in spite of legal and political differences, to work in unity.
Over and over, in the New Testament, we read read of the Apostles Paul and Peter (see highlight and reference passages), echoing the calls of David’s song in Ps 133:1, calling on Christ’s Body (i.e., the Church) to cast aside our differences and come together in the unity of Christ’s love. Jesus even called on His disciples (as He does with us) in John 13:34-35) to join in unity to show the world of our purpose and the uniting power of His love.
Don’t you think, as Christians in these days of divisiveness, that we need to harken to the old song of the 1960s, linked above, and come together, at least as Christ’s body, to show the world of Christ’s “love, sweet love” …?
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for bringing us together with Your love, sweet love !!
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here will join me, to share Your love with anyone and everyone we can today. … Amen
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