Finally, brothers, rejoice, be perfected, be comforted, think the same thing, be at peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. 2 Corinthians 13:11
Make my joy full, that you think the same thing, having the same love, joined in soul, thinking the one thing, Philippians 2:2
I am being graced and being blessed to serve in the literature service in India with my fellow brothers in a way of fellowship and coordination. Though we serve One God in the one flow of the one ministry of the age, we serve in different entities with varying functions and responsibilities. Thank God, as we have been serving in this way the Lord has sovereignly ordained; we serve in fellowship with one another and also in fellowship with some more senior and matured ones. It was through the fellowship of one such matured brother who suggested that all the literature serving ones and those serving in overseeing the Lord's work should come together and have more fellowship and prayer that we began to meet on Tuesdays for the same.
Last Tuesday we just had the first of such fellowship. It was truly of the Lord that we were grant mercy to find time to fellowship. Our relationship and coordination became very sweet and dear. I can personally testify that it has indeed become sweeter and dearer than when we had such fellowship before. Though we serve the Lord together, sometimes, there were some feelings and thoughts within on some matters that did not harmoniously blend as it should be. It was simply due to the deficiency in fellowship. At some points, difference of entities that we serves seems to work as hidden justified barrier in many aspects of our services. Now that the entities that we are involved in have been growing by the year, and the Lord also has been blessing us more and more, without a proper and adequate check and balance in coordination, it can subtly lead to discord. Fellowship, prayer, blending and building of the serving ones are the remedy to possible anomaly. The Lord knows best and He arranges such a fellowship. To me, this is a great salvation.
Personally I am not an outspoken person. I have been learning the lesson of obedience, humility, and submission, taking the Lord as all these virtues. But I am not matured yet, and by virtue of my being on the process of growth and maturity, often I tend to go off-track, at least in my feeling or thinking concerning how things should be done. Therefore I need the Body to measure me and balance me. I believe the same applies to others as well. And such blending fellowship balances out different feelings, thoughts, and opinions; and such blending fellowship too will blend and build us into oneness and one accord. I worship the Lord for the timely speaking and leading of the Lord.
We brothers are on our late thirties or early forties, and the responsibilities we bear are great and important, even covering the entire nation. A little misstep or a little discord can damage the Lord's work and His testimony. Therefore, it is imperative for us to be tuned into the same mind, the same thinking, the same speaking; preserving and maintaining the oneness in the Body for the sake of the Lord's interest especially in this country.
Praise the Lord for the blending fellowship! May the Lord continue to grace us to go on in this way of blending, even blended fellowship, for the sake of His testimony and move in India.
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