What Does Lack Look Like? (Part 2)

1 Corinthians 6:16-17 KJV
"What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit."

So this is where the idea of unity is explained most clearly. It reminds me of the verse that states "man cannot serve two masters: either he will hate one and love the other, or love the one and despise the other." I believe that thought is here. How can you honestly claim to be in spiritual communion with Christ when you are in sexual union with a prostitute? How can you be quarreling bitterly and publicly with your brother in Christ and yet be in fellowship with God and living in His word? How can you serve Christ and serve your sinful self? The answer is you can't.

So what does lack of unity with God look like? It looks like lack of unity with our brothers and sisters. It looks like inconsistency between what we say about God and what we do in response to God's Word. It looks like selfishness, foolishness, and defeat.

When we are united with the Lord Jesus, we are united on every level--emotionally, spiritually, mentally, and physically. He wants everything; our heart and its affections, our spirit and our attitudes, our intelligence and our intellect, and our bodies and desires. We are in essence relinquishing all selfish control of our existence and handing it to Him. And when we turn back on that choice and again feel a pull toward the flesh that used to reign, our communion with God will be hindered. We will find that our emotions, our minds, our souls, and our flesh will be at war with each other...FAR from united. And the farther we distance from the Savior who longs to be one with us, the more it shows in the way we live before others.

God help us to stay close to Him and consequently, close to the people who walk through life beside us...that He may be glorified by our unity and others may be won to Him.