May 1

Psalm 133
"How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!" Other than the promotion of the gospel to the lost, this has been my driving force throughout my Christian walk. Primarily because the lack of unity is so damaging to the cause of Christ. I came to the Lord in my late twenties. Fortunately, the young couple presenting the gospel to my wife and I didn't make the mistake of attempting to convert us to the church. Rather, our conversion was to Jesus Christ. This was fortunate because my view of the church was very poor. The disunity among the various churches is extremely ugly. Christian love is, at best, disingenuous when expressed to the lost, while being lost to other Christians, simply because there is some point of disagreement! Unity does not mean uniformity. If it did there would never be a successful marriage. In fact, there would not be a lasting relationship of any kind. In order to live together in unity we must often agree to disagree, loving each other in spite of our differences; maybe even because of our differences. There is much more strength in diversity than there could ever be in uniformity. So, on this my birthday, I make another appeal to Christians of every stripe and color, let's show the world that we are His disciples by our love for each other!