Locking Arms
A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. John 13:34
My husband used this illustration in a sermon: Once there was a wheat farmer and his wife who had a young son. One day the son went out in the yard and later they couldn’t find him. They searched everywhere but the wheat was much taller than the little boy. Frantically and as a last resort, they called the neighbors in to help. They all locked arms and walked out across the wheat field. Eventually they found the little boy but he had died of hypothermia. The mom and dad were heartbroken. When they were interviewed, they said, “We wish we had joined arm in arm with our neighbors earlier.”
Helen Keller said, “Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.” Let us lock arms together now because together we can accomplish more than we can apart. Let us not wait too late to learn how much we need one another. An African proverb says, “When spiderwebs unite they can tie up a lion.” We can accomplish great things when unified.
Oh women, we have to work together and get along. Where is our compassion? Where is our sisterhood? Where is our love for one another?
The consequence of not locking arms together is too catastrophic because people are dying. Let us not be the ones guilty of not wanting to join together in love. Woe to the one who tries to cause dissension. When you sow seeds of disunity, you will reap a crop no one would want.
Be wise women of the Word! Stay in the Word daily so that you will know how to live. Watch over your tongues, and don’t let Satan use you as his instrument of disunity. Remember who your Enemy is and keep a big-picture perspective. Satan seeks to kill, steal, and destroy, but Jesus has come so that we may have abundant life (see John 10:10). Satan wants to kill, steal, and destroy the unity in your marriage, your church, and in your community. Be a woman of prayer and pray against any dissension.
Dear Lord, please allow me to delight in Your Word. Let me be one who prays for unity among my sisters. Lord, don’t let us wait to lock arms with our sisters until it is too late and damage is done. Let us see that we truly do need one another and we can accomplish more when we work together. In Jesus’ name, amen.