Behold, how good and pleasant it is

when brothers dwell in unity!

It is like the precious oil on the head,

running down on the beard,

on the beard of Aaron,

running down on the collar of his robes!

It is like the dew of Hermon,

which falls on the mountains of Zion!

For there the Lord has commanded the blessing,

life forevermore.

– Psalm 133

How good and pleasant. And rare!

Unity among brothers is so good. It’s like the sweet annointing, consecrating oil running down Aaron’s beard. It is holiness. It is beautiful.

It is hard to attain. Especially when I am concentrated on non-essentials and peripherals. My eyesight is not good. Essentials blur before my eyes, but boy will I fixate on something that’s not important at all.

Unity is like refreshing dew, new in the morning, but that can burn away so quickly.

Unity is worth fighting for. It’s worth dying for. Unity in the church, among the children of God, is the standard of love that draws the world to Christ.

“I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

– John 17:20-26

May we become “perfectly one”. I don’t know how this will happen, but I know it’s what Christ prayed for.

May I be a peacemaker when I can, may I disregard the desire to be right, may I stay out of vain disputes.

May I do my part for unity.