God loves you – God desperately wants a relationship with you – so much so that God became a man and lived among people in order to build that relationship. None of this is new news really. All of us have heard the Christmas story most likely.
But have you ever come to grips with the truth that just as God wants a relationship with you and with me, God wants each of us to have a relationship with one another! I don’t know about you, but that causes me to pause. The thought that our relationships with each other are just as important to God as our individual relationships with the Almighty.
John 17:20-23 tells us that Jesus prayed that we would be one as he and God are one. Why? So that the rest of the world would see that unity and be drawn to God.
Jesus wants us to be unified – one body. Now we all know that there are divisions among God’s people. But do you think that brings honor and glory to God – does it draw others to the One who desires us all to be one?
In reality, we are human – we have different likes and dislikes, different ideas and different ways of doing things. Diversity is a good thing. But when we focus on what divides to the detriment of what unites, we have lost our way.
What separates you from other followers of the Way? In the grand scheme of eternity, do those things that separate really matter?
Clay in the Hands 
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