Diversity Is Not The Goal Of God
Notice how diversity
is not the goal, singularity is.
“For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have
put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Galatians (3:27-28).
“Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of
peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of
your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who
is above all, and through all, and in you all.” (Ephesians 4:3-6).
In fact, God used
diversity as a punishment.
“And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain
in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. And they said one to another, Go
to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone,
and slime had they for morter. And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and
a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be
scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. And the Lord came down to
see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded. And the Lord
said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they
begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have
imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that
they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad
from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the
city. Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there
confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter
them abroad upon the face of all the earth.” (Genesis 11:1-9)
Diversity has never been the goal of God. Unity of heart and
soul invested in Jesus Christ always has been.
God is the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Diversity is the exact opposite. Diversity is the fight to separate and divide.
There is no unity in division, except for the divisive. There is no Holy Spirit
in division, only the spirit of antichrist.
This will be confusing to some. Especially when you look at
the diversity of race, nationality, color, gender, etc. that is the make-up of
Christianity. But what you have to understand is that diversity coalesces when
“endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace”
The Spirit is the cause, peace and unity are the effect. The
spirit of antichrist is the cause, division and strife are the effect.
Jesus Christ (the cause) said peace I leave you. My peace I
give you (the effect). Not as the world (division) gives you. (John 14:27).
Jesus Christ one great purpose and prayer to God was the
unity of all of His children, that we all may not be divided, but that we all
become one.
“That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I
in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou
hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they
may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be
made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and
hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.” (John 17:21-23)
United, we stand. Divided, we fall. Put on the whole armor
of God and stand!
Bill Hitchcock
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