Togetherness
starts with oneself and Jesus. Understanding that there are differences in everyone and
appreciating others and ourselves with gratitude is what we need to become
whole.
In the Old Testament, Jeremiah announces the new alliance six hundred
years before Jesus-Christ. Jeremiah 31:31-34 31“The
days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“when I will make a new covenant
with the people of Israel
and with the people of Judah.
32It will
not be like the covenant
I made with their ancestors
when I took them by the hand
to lead them out of Egypt,
because they broke my covenant,
declares the Lord.
33“This
is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
34No
longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest,”
declares the Lord.
“For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.”
Jesus calls for everyone
John 17 :20-26
20“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for
those who will believe in me through their message, 21that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are
in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe
that you have sent me. 22I have given them the glory that you gave me, that
they may be one as we are one— 23I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to
complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them
even as you have loved me.
24“Father, I want those you have given me to be with me
where I am, and to see my glory, the glory you have given me because you loved
me before the creation of the world.
