Lord Please Make Us One

How fitting that the 70th Anniversary of the famed War of the Worlds broadcast fell this final week of 2008 election season. For close to two years now we the people have been bombarded, invaded, and devastated by endless bickering, distortions, and paper promises. We are battered, we are tired, we just want it to end. Tuesday, barring another 2000 fiasco, it should all come to an end. And then it will be up to us again, we the people, to rebuild the nation torn apart by political rhetoric, pompous political punditry, and perceptions of mistaken political mandates. So how does a nation torn apart, a people in opposition come together?

Ephesians 2:11-22 (NIV):

Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men)— remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.
For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.

Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

This is what we the people need, in order to form a more perfect union. Come Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and beyond, I pray that God will help us all find it.