DAILY READINGS: 1 Chronicles 26-27; Ezekiel 23; John 8:31-59
Thy brother is come. Luke 15:27
Thy brother was dead. Luke 15:32
Thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living. Luke 15:30
In speaking to the older brother about the prodigal son, the servants and the father both used the term “thy brother.” The older brother would not say, “my brother” saying instead to his father, “thy son,” thus distancing himself from his brother. Holding ourselves aloof from brothers and sisters in Christ is not of God. “Is Christ divided?” (1 Cor. 1:13). Heaven will not be partitioned to accommodate our carnal divisions. Christ prayed that we “may be made perfect in one,” (Jn. 17:23). Let us make that prayer reality. —D. L.
All these once were sinners, defiled in His sight,
Now arrayed in pure garments in praise they unite. —A. Pierson