One
Unity was and is and ever shall be
best described by God, the three-
-in-one,
Father, Spirit, Son,
existing together before time had begun,
from past eternity,
controlling human destiny,
author of all we can and cannot see.
For in the beginning,
God created out of nothing:
the loving Father forming and filling,
the Holy Spirit energizing,
and the Son, part of the making.
As the Scripture says,
“in Him and through Him and for Him all things were made.”
“All things” includes you and me,
and grass and trees
and cows and bees,
God made everything and called it good.
But for Adam and Eve,
good was not good enough,
and in one fatal bite,
all that they might have enjoyed -
with all the earth and holy God –
purity and unity undone,
become enmity and death.
Man versus ground versus woman versus Creator.
Sin, the great dis-locator,
shattered Eden’s harmony,
bound the world in misery.
But loving God had a plan
for long since before time began
to bring His people back to Him
and set the whole world to rights again
So He sent His only Son
Who prayed that believers, His followers
would be one and
“Thy will be done!”
on earth as it is in heaven
where he was taken
after He had risen.
But He would not leave His followers alone
to do His will once He was gone –
gone but not forgotten.
Because the Spirit came
to call to mind
the words He spoke during His time
to remind people how to live a Godward life,
to end all strife
and striving –
to remind them of the simplicity
in one Lord, one faith, as a single body,
a single hope to which they were called,
one God and Father of all, over all, through all, and in all.
So until He comes, our glorious King,
our work is to bring
glory and honor to His name,
to spread His fame
from sea to sea
and shore to shore,
praising Him forevermore –
The church in grace of Christ abounding,
with the love of God compelling,
and the Fellowship of the Spirit binding
us together
in unity, as one,
forever.
Written for Hope Church for the One series on 1 Corinthians.
