Behold how good...

Psalm 133:1 Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

It is good! It is good, because God said it was good. We need to find out how good this is and park here and become use to this way. This way of unity.

Yes, it can be overwhelming at times, but what in life is not overwhelming at times.

In 1 Corinthians 12:12 Paul says, "For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of that one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ." Paul continues his illustration in this chapter and says, "...the members should have the same care for one another. And if one member suffers, all the members suffer with it; or if one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it."

We are in awe of this body. We are humbled, knowing it is the body working as it should that accomplishes His will. It is however sad when we are witness to and even guilty of the body harming itself, remembering what Paul said, "...this is Christ's body."

Through this body, united and working together, God accomplishes great things for His glory. The united body is a powerful tool. No one person could accomplish what a strong united body can accomplish. A hand, and eye, an ear, a foot alone can not accomplish much, but together we, by the mercy and grace of God, can change the world.
A most important thought, moving further into chapter 13, Paul writes, we are only a loud, irritating noise if we do all that we do and we don't have love. Pray that our united body has love! Love for each other, love for strangers we will be standing next to, love for the unlovely and love for the people who will receive this food on the other side of the world. God's ways are beyond our understanding but when He says, "Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love" then we need to ask ourselves what does my love look like.
This Saturday is not about packing boxes with food, it's about packing with love.

Africa Harvest of Hope thanks you for showing the love of Christ in His body.
We are praying for you!