One Voice

Meditations on Romans

September 27, 2021

One Voice

Then all of you can join together with one voice, giving praise and glory to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 15:6

Read Romans 15:1-6

I treasured the opportunity to provide a benediction, a blessing, for my congregation as we closed our Sunday morning worship service. One of my favorite benedictions was inspired by today’s reading:

I bless you with the promises of God.

As followers of Christ Jesus

may you live in complete harmony with each other.

May you join together with one voice,

giving praise and glory to God,

the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

May God fill you completely with joy and peace

because you trust in him.

May you overflow with confident hope

through the power of the Holy Spirit.

AMEN

One voice! What does that mean? Paul expanded on this thought in his letter to the Ephesians:

For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future.

There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

one God and Father of all,

who is over all, in all, and living through all. (Ephesians 4:4-6)

My Takeaway: In our communities of faith, we all don’t look the same. We have different tastes in music, food, clothes, vocations and avocations. But when we come together for worship, with one voice we sing and praise one God and Father of all who gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life. 

Sē’lah

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(Selah is a word that appears in the Book of Psalms that I often use as the Complimentary Closing in my correspondence. Its meaning, as I use the word, is to pause and think about these things.)

 

These meditations are written by Alex M. Knight as he seeks the life in Christ as his way of life.  The meditations are published on the BLOG, http://seekingthelifeinchrist.blogspot.com/ and they are also distributed on the Constant Contact email server. You may subscribe to this email service by sending an email to: amkrom812@gmail.com.

 

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