UNITED WE STAND - REFURBISHED
Mark: 3:24 If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
3:25 And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
Imagine a united world, where all live in peace and harmony.
It might be considered a utopia, be we have to see that only a general repentance of all can lead to a world where everybody loves God and everyone loves one’s neighbor. What a different world it would have been instead of the timeline when John the Baptist was beheaded and Jesus was brutally tortured and crucified.
What a different world it would have been during the world wars, if repentance of all would have prevailed for the sake of the Love of God. However, it is the same old world today and the same probably tomorrow, that what we have is not the world we wish to have.
Small town legend has it that two men met under the same golden Sun, walking on the same Earth accompanied by the same silver moon.
The two men were brothers. It did not matter to them. They could not stand each other, not like Cain and Abel, rather like Jacob and Esau.
They told each other that they can not sit together, they can not camp or settle together, they can not farm together, they can not cattle breed together, they can not buffalo hunt together, they can not celebrate festivals together, they can not pray together, they can not lie in the same cemetery together, they can not attend the same school and neither their children.
Thus the two brothers agreed in the only one thing they were able to agree with that the younger brother will go to the west, the elder brother will go to the East in order not to meet ever again. Their two wagons left each other in two opposite directions.
They were outward bound and the distance kept growing between them, not even looking back. No bargain, no negotiations.
It was a sad moment in Heaven, but the Sun did not stop shining, the Earth did not stop spinning, the Moon did not stop orbiting, the rain did not stop fertilizing the ground, the meadow did not stop blossoming, the buffalo herd did not stop roaming.
The two wagons disappeared from each other's horizons, planning that their will never see each other again. In the age of the horse wagons though it was known, still it was hardly imaginable that the Earth is really spherical.
Thus the distance between the two wagons increased by every moment regarding home, their starting point. However, using ferries and ocean-liners, the not expected occurred, that they met at the other end of the world.
It was no only that the distance grew between them by every step their horse took, but also in the same time the distance between them also decreased by every step taken concerning the spherical shape of the Earth and closing to the other end of the world.
They became almost mad that after that much effort they put into the never meeting process, yet they met against their will and plans.
Thus, filled with annoyance and anger they just proceeded on their way further, with the adamant resolution that it was the last time they saw each other.
However, using ferries and ocean-liners again, the not expected occurred again, they finally met at home in the prairies. It was exactly a year later.
They were under the same golden Sun, meeting on the same Earth, on the same field accompanied by the same silver moon.
The vast prairie was filled with talking prairie flowers and the ocean of the green grass was like a fresh billowing green sea with meek and humble curves in the breathing and fondling hands of the late spring breezes.
They were so tired of their journey that they got asleep promptly and both of the brothers had the same dream.
And angel said it as if in a dream:
You are brothers. You are family. You are the children of God. You shall stop roaming all around the world, you must settle down, and call home a home. You both have to learn to love your brother who is your neighbor, or at least who will be your neighbor.
AND THEN you can sit together around the table, around the camp fire, and in the council of the elders. You can settle together, you can farm together, you can help out each other, you can celebrate the festivals together, you can pray together, you can lie in the same cemetery together, you can attend the same school and also your children. You can listen to the same tradition together, you can give heart to the teachings of the sacred elders.
When they woke up, they understood that life is more than the I person.
The life is not I, but us and the one who gave life to us.
We humans often think that we can plan and we can execute and follow up our plans. However the universe has its own structure. The universe will not adapt nor yield, we have to adapt and learn the physical and other laws given by the Creator, in order to do well.
We can plan that we will keep our distance, not mingling ever together, following only our distinct path, walking, maybe, parallel but never together. The universe says that it is impossible.
The parallels sooner or later intersect, mostly because the gravity of the history moves the paths to intersect, curving the social space around us.
The natural and creation order obviously rendered so that every family must have their own home, every clan must have their own frame, every tribe must have their own tribal land and infrastructure, every nation must have their own homeland and destiny, and all the nations of the Earth must comprise an extended family.
We are all connected, interconnected, entangled and intertwined.
We are responsible for the personal faith in our hearts, one by one, and also we are responsible of the conduct of the world, whether it became or how it did not become a united community, a global family in the global village, where people look after each other and seriously take actions for the safe and free future of the grand-children and the next generations.
Whatever happens, at the end of our personal world, we will see God.
If we believe, there is nothing to fear. At the end of the world in general, we will see God. If we believe, there is nothing to fear.
Eventually we are all related. Life is a journey one by one.
Life is also a journey together. We must fare well together. United we stand.
May the Almighty heal and unite the nations. We pray in the name of Jesus, by the Holy Spirit. May the Lord grant us hope, faith and love, AMEN.
