We are living in a time when people are dead in trespasses and sins. Dead men and women cannot realize anything. But if we, in contrast, are alive in Christ, let us bear a testimony that is in accordance with the truth we believe. Let us be united in cooperation as a living whole.

The Lord works to save those who are perishing in sin. To accomplish this goal, He uses His church as a channel. We are to reflect His grace and mercy to the world, fulfilling God’s purpose for us. God requires a thorough conversion in the church. God calls for men and women with the love of Christ to do His work. He needs people of sound minds, clear heads, and tender hearts.

If we as individuals and as a people do not believe and practice the Word of God, we will never see the King in His glory. We know that God’s law, the standard of His character and the core principle of this law, is love. Obedience to this law is the condition and a main ingredient of our salvation. Our present and future happiness depends upon this.

The Lord says, “Ye are the light of the world” (Matthew 5:14). So, we must take up the light which God has given us and follow it at any cost. This is our only safety. We have a work to do to come into harmony, and may the Lord help us to do it. The Lord says, “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” (Verse 16).

It is never difficult to do what we love to do, but to take a course directly against our inclinations is a little difficult, humanly speaking. Let us ponder over the prayer of Jesus. He prayed for His disciples that they might be one as He was one with the Father. This unity is the identification of Christ that God sent Him.

We do not need additional evidence, but the observation of the truth. We must act in perfect unity with our brethren and sisters. The heart of the believer is to be as the heart of Christ. Every throb is to beat in harmony with the heart of Christ. We are to be one with Christ, and one with each other. By doing this we may let the world know that we are His children. Oneness, harmony, unity of spirit with the Saviour - these are the signs by which Christians may be distinguished. When we are one with Christ, we shall be united among ourselves.

“I pray for them; I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine. And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them” (John 17:9, 10).

This prayer should touch our heart and thrill our whole being. Shall we not strive to make our life, which cost the Son of God so much, such that He can be glorified in us?

“God is leading a people out from the world upon the exalted platform of eternal truth, the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus. He will discipline and fit up His people. They will not be at variance, one believing one thing, and another having faith and views entirely opposite, each moving independently of the body. Through the diversity of the gifts and governments that He has placed in the church, they will all come to the unity of the faith. If one man takes his views of Bible truth without regard to the opinion of his brethren, and justifies his course, alleging that he has a right to his own peculiar views, and then presses them upon others, how can he be fulfilling the prayer of Christ? And if another and still another arises, each asserting his right to believe and talk what he pleases, without reference to the faith of the body, where will be that harmony which existed between Christ and His Father, and which Christ prayed might exist among His brethren?”

“God is leading out a people and establishing them upon the one great platform of faith, the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus. He has given His people a straight chain of Bible truth, clear and connected. This truth is of heavenly origin and has been searched for as for hidden treasure. It has been dug out through careful searching of the Scriptures and through much prayer.”1

“God’s people have close, severe battles to fight; but these battles are not to be against their brethren. All desire to hurt and weaken and destroy the influence of even the weakest of God’s workers, is registered in the books of heaven as desire to weaken the influence of Jesus Christ. The warfare we are to undertake is to be waged against the confederacy of evil, which is arrayed against the people of God. But woe unto those who shall turn their implements of warfare against their own brethren. God reminds us that we are to fight in unison with the angels of heaven, and that more than angels are engaged in the warfare.”2

May God help us to have unity of faith.