Apparently Euodias and Syntyche were two women in the Philippian church who had a row that they could not settle. These things happen all the time. Two Christians have a little difference that neither is willing to back down on and before you not you have the seed of bitterness planted and beginning to take root.
It's obvious that we need to be united in heart and spirit. A house divided against itself cannot stand. That goes for nations and families and churches and everything else. We don’t have any idea what this squabble was about. Chances are it was something small and petty that could not get settled and it festered and grew.
The same thing happens today. It is easy for people to get divided in times of crisis.
This is a great time for division to drive us apart. The hashtag #shouldertoshoulder is being used to describe Irish people coming together to deal with this crisis.
It’s time to lay aside those petty squabbles in the body. Here we have a chance, perhaps the greatest chance we will have in out lifetimes, to show the world how God’s people respond to the tough times.
We must stand in one mind – not a mind controlled by a spirit of fear – but a mind united by power and love and a sound mind.
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