One - in Him

having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. - Ephesians 1.9-10

We surely live in a diverse and divided world. We seem capable of dividing over anything. We divide over skin shade. We divide over nationalities. We divide over gender. We divide over music. We divide over theological issues. We divide over preferences. We divide over standards. We divide over personalities. We divide over the stupidest stuff. In fact we seem to look more at ways to divide than ways to unite.

And then there are natural divisions. There are men and angels. There are the saved in heaven and the saved on earth. These believers were dealing the cultural division between Jews and Gentiles.

But one day, ah one day, God is going to put everything in Him back together through Christ. All of the natural divisions and all of the man-made divisions will be broken down. We will be one with those we squabble with today. We will be one with those dear saints in heaven. We will be joined together with the church past and future and live with the angels in heaven.

I don’t know. It seems like we all would be much better practising that unity now and stop looking for things to divide over.