Looking For Unity – 08

How Does It Flow? – 01

Should the Christians of our time be admonished by a “poet of their own” in a similar way as were the Cretans in the Apostle Paul’s day (Titus 1:12)? The poet Robert Frost probed the purpose behind the prevalence of walls which separate humans from one another.

His New England neighbor had nothing more profound to present as a justification than the following: “Good fences make good neighbors,” and proceeded to mindlessly mend the wall of separation.

These studies from Psalm 133 clearly acknowledge that in the age of fallenness, divisions are not entirely avoidable (1 Cor 11:19). Nonetheless, given God’s exhortations toward unity and His promise to command a blessing upon those who seek it, we do well to ask ourselves before we build or repair a wall – “What am I walling in or walling out; And to whom am I likely to give offense”?