PSALM 133:1

How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!

TO PONDER

Most of us have probably heard the old saying; You can pick your friends, but you can’t pick your family.

Although there isn’t a common catchy saying for it, the same saying could apply to your church family.

Have you ever taken a good look at your church family, those people you worship with every Sunday and asked yourself, “would I really be friends with these people if it wasn’t for church?”

Today’s verse talks about the church sharing our lives together in unity is a good and pleasant, the New Living Translation calls it “wonderful and pleasant”, sounds nice doesn’t it? Is that how you would describe your church experience?

I think the important part of the verse is not so much the “pleasant” and the “good” but the crux of this verse is the “in unity”. Often we focus on the pleasant, good feelings when it comes to church life, it’s all nice until the pleasant, good feelings abate then we perhaps start looking for the exit.

What would happen if we focused on the unity part, the being the church together instead of going to church alone…

I have asked the question I started with and the answer was “NO!” I would not be friends with some of the people who were part of my past church experiences because they were so different than me, we had nothing in common, often the picture of oil and water would explain it but friendship happened anyway.

In fact friendship was not strong enough, a better word would have been family. In the general everyday we wouldn’t have connected, our worlds were too separated but the connection happened as a result of unity, the realisation that God brought our church together created family. 

We didn’t choose this family God chose us to become family.

PRAYER: Father God, I thank you that you chose me to become part of your family, Amen.

Today's devotion written by Danny Brock, LifeWay Westside