Phil Roberton's GOD IS NOT DEAD 5- Day DevotionalSample

There’s a simple solution to all our disunity, and it’s a truth found in the absolute truth of God’s Word. We can return to the Almighty and understand how he’s created us to be unified under his message. What is that message? That all of us are created in the image of God, and so he loves us all without distinction.

Jesus came preaching the unifying love of God. But he didn’t just preach it. He embodied it. He spent time with men and women, rich and poor, sick and healthy, and Jews and Gentiles. He asked a Roman employee—Matthew the tax collector—to become his disciple. He also asked a Jewish zealot who would have hated that Roman tax collector—Peter—to follow along. He touched the lepers (Matt. 8:2–3). He spent time with the hated Samaritans, including a second-class, outcast, divorced-five-times-over Samaritan woman (John 4:1–42). Jesus came, and he showed no favoritism, only love for all.

The good news of the gospel is that it frees us from the lies (and possession) of the enemy. It can bring ultimate unity, if only we believe it. The gospel turns conservative redneck duck hunters and hate-filled rehab patients into family. It brings together folks of every ethnicity, nationality, economic class, and gender. It heals the division in our country.

We have the Word of Truth. . . . It’s the tool that might make a family of us again. So, let’s get back to it. When we gather on Sunday mornings, let’s model a love for our neighbors that shows no favoritism based upon class, color, or nationality. But let’s not stop there. Let’s be examples to the rest of the world. Let’s carry the truth of Christ’s unity out into the workplace, into public schools, into the rehab centers. Let’s carry it into the political process, into the voter booth. Let’s share it with those who are possessed by their father, the evil one, and let’s watch deliverance happen.