The Joy and Power of Unity
"I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me." John 17:21 God's Word speaks a great deal about unity and division. We read in Mark 3:24-25, "A kingdom divided against itself will collapse. A home filled with strife and division destroys itself." Yet when there is unity, a people becomes unstoppable. Consider the story of the tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1-9 which reads as follows in the TLB: "At that time all mankind spoke a single language. As the population grew and spread eastward, a plain was discovered in the land of Babylon and was soon thickly populated. The people who lived there began to talk about building a great city, with a temple-tower reaching to the skies—a proud, eternal monument to themselves. “This will weld us together,” they said, “and keep us from scattering all over the world.” So they made great piles of ha...