Philippians 2:1-11: If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. 4 Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.
5 Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
7 but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
What does it really mean to be able to be like-minded?
To be united in purpose and in spirit?
Whose Spirit?
How often do you really consider others to be better than yourself? (Lk 14:11, Lk 13:30) Someone very wise once told me that I should be able to learn something new from every single person I meet. I am sure that he is not the only person who has had this idea, but do we walk around with this kind of humble and gentle attitude. Are Christians meant to judge? or are they meant to love? love even their enemy!
To know of all the wisdom in the world, and never put any of it into action, should be the greatest injustice to ones self you could commit (Jms 2:14, Jms 2:26, Jms 3:13). To claim to be Christian and then not act at all the way Christ did, or the way he asked us to behave is not something acceptable in Gods eyes, in fact he tells us that we are without excuse of not knowing who he is and being prepared for his second coming (Rom 1:20, 2Tim 3:116-17). For we are those with the 6000 years of Biblical history, recorded for us today as evidence and proof of God’s eternal love for his children … who are his children? Surely those who carry his seed (Luke 8:11) and those who are made in his spiritual image (1 Pet 1:23, Jn 10:33-35), those who follow his greatest commandment – to LOVE! ( 1 Cor 13, Jn 14:15, Jn 14:23).
Jesus asks for all men to be united. When all religions and all men realize that what they hunger for and are seeking to understand is this love, the love of God! That we are not all so different, in fact we yearn for the same thing (Rom 8:22-23). The word that is taught from Shinchonji teaches us to strive to be like-minded, strive to set aside our own, opinionated and flawed ideas of who is right and who is at fault and to use God’s eternal standard to create hearts according to the pattern he set out for us in his word. It is all there, like a blueprint, like a manual. A manual not only for our path to God, but a manual for the bridge to World Peace.
When all the religions of this world can unite, the old will pass away and a new thing will come. There will be World Peace, and there in that time and place God’s kingdom will be established (Rev 21:1-4).
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