Unity is one of the most powerful weapons of mankind – for good or evil. Perhaps there is no greater illustration of this than the infamous Tower of Babel.
In Genesis 11, mankind unites to build a great city and exalt themselves over all the earth. We might expect God to ignore their futility and claim they are powerless without Him. But God doesn’t deny the power of their unity. Instead, He laments their abuse of it:
“If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other” (Gen 11:6, 7).
To this day, we live under the curse of Disunity – confusion, wars, and oppression.
But I have hope for our Unity. In the above story, we see a wrathful God who punished mankind by confusing their language. But what we forget is this: if man was capable of such evil together, the opposite also holds true.
Only together can we see the fullest expression of the Holy Spirit. And the Enemy of our souls knows this, fighting against it every chance he gets.
When we unite as One to build a city for God, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we will do things this world has never seen and may yet never see again. God separated us for a time for our own goodness and salvation, but in the end, we will all be reunited again as we were meant to be. And out of this unity in the Spirit will be birthed the full expression of God’s glory and goodness on earth: justice for the oppressed, freedom from darkness, and mercy for the forgotten.
Though the fight against evil and exploitation feels hopeless at times, if God is for us and we are united in Him, who could stand against us? Is there anything that would be impossible?
