UNITY IN DIVERSITY.

“That all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in Us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. I have given them the glory that You gave me, that they may be one as We are one: I in them and You in Me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved Me”. (John 17:21-23 NIV).

The thought of how different people, of different races, speaking different languages and having different cultural or ethnical values can come together to be one seems almost impossible. A nation most often consists of people who share common values, beliefs and descent. However, this is what God always intended for us, right from the beginning (the creation of the world): that all men would live together in peace, unity and love.

How then can this come to pass? It is God’s will that the world should speak the same language and be in one accord. It still is His will that we speak different languages but also live in one accord. That all tribes and nations should come together to form one nation.., God’s nation.

Our diversity must not be seen as a barrier to our becoming one nation as God intends for us to be. Rather, it should bring us together, knowing that each tribe or nation has a lot to learn from the other. We should learn to understand and embrace the cultures of others, knowing that we all form one nation (God’s nation).

“Wherever God has a child, I have a brother or sister” (W. Carl Ketcherside).