Today's Daily Lesson comes from Ephesians chapter 2 verses 13 through 16 and
13But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. 14For he is our peace; in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall, that is, the hostility between us. 15He has abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances, so that he might create in himself one new humanity in place of the two, thus making peace, 16and might reconcile both groups to God in one body* through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. . . . 19So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints and also members of the household of God, 20built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the cornerstone. 21In him the whole structure is joined together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord; 22in whom you also are built together spiritually* into a dwelling-place for God.
Our destiny is oneness.
The forces of division seek to pull us apart, to fray us at the seams of our democracy, or our race, or our politics, or our geography.
But our destiny is togetherness. It is oneness.
E pluribus unum. Out of many we have been made one. In Christ we have been made one. In Christ we will be one.
Don't give up on the vision, friends. It still stands. I beckons. It compels. Love, and unity, and a common destiny compel us.
Dr. King said, "We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."
When will we learn, that the two children in Rebekah's womb need each other in order to survive?
Ryon Price is the Senior Pastor of Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas.
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