PSALM 133
It is one thing for a group of people to journey together to Jerusalem for a feast and quite something else for them to live together day after day. Abraham and Lot, Isaac and his family, Jacob and Laban, and Joseph’s brothers remind us that brethren do not always dwell together in unity.
Unity must come down from above, like the oil running down Aaron’s beard and bathing the twelve jewels on the breastplate (Exod. 29:5–7), or like the dew descending on the mountains. You can manufacture uniformity by manipulating people and exerting pressure, but true unity can come only from God by His Spirit.
Unity is good like the dew and produces fruitfulness. It is pleasant like the oil and produces a lovely fragrance. Divisions among God’s people produce opposite results. Have you heeded the admonition of Ephesians 4:1–6?