Today’s Word

In the recent past, certainly by two television presenters in Yorkshire, they walked a 3-legged series of routes for charity. To walk together, but separately, can sometimes be difficult, but to walk in unison with 2 legs tied together for any distance is a big ask. Back in the book of Amos, he asks a question, that taken purely at face value, relates very much to that type of challenge: “Can two walk together except they be agreed?”

But we soon see that the question has much wider interpretation. It relates to any situation in life where two people, two organisations or two parties of any type try to work in unison. Essentially such working together has to be based on trust, each one has to trust the other to fulfil the objective they have agreed to seek to achieve.

The same principle is absolutely true in the spiritual realm. How can, we as sinful human beings, achieve any sort of unity with a holy and righteous God? We are opposed to one another. Righteousness can have no fellowship with unrighteousness. Yet the Apostle John writes in his first letter, “And truly our fellowship is with the Father, and His Son, Jesus Christ”. And John gives us the answer, it is all through the work and person of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. When we were given grace to accept Him as our Saviour, then our unrighteousness was blotted out by the covering of Jesus’ righteousness, so there is no permanent hindrance to our fellowship with God in all 3 persons Let us always seek to make the very best of that gift of fellowship and never allow our sinful nature to detract from it.

Article written by Brian Preston, Elder @SFGH Church