Purpose is everything. The purpose of God for us is to dwell in unity and peace. If man ever encounters any disunity or chaos, it is because he caused it for himself. God wants order and to make this happen, He wants us to live in unity.
He created just one language for unity among men. God used one language, Hebrew to reveal Himself. In the Old Testament. In the New Testament, Greek was used.
The untoward intent of man was the reason He scattered them by creating different tongues or languages. As the people planned to build a tower to reach the heavens, God made them not understand one another anymore by the different languages they began to speak. This was because the intention to build the Tower of Babel was not a good one. This is how we have multiple languages in the world today.
He designed unity for a purpose
We must note, however, that the Lord has purposed man to live together, co-existing in agreement to accomplish great things together. However, the many languages God created have become a thing of beauty. First, is diversity in terms of languages. Nonetheless, He understands all our languages. Whenever we pray to Him in our native languages, He understands.
But man became overambitious and God modified the agenda, without destroying the purpose:
“Now the whole earth had one language and one]speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and] bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” But the LORD came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called]Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth” (Genesis 11: 1-9).
God’s purpose is to have men live in one accord with understanding of one another through one language. But the purpose of man was to unite and stand against God. The purpose was not right and God confused them. By scattering them all over the earth, it was in fulfillment of another purpose, which is to multiply and replenish the earth. This is also in fulfillment of yet another purpose- that the message of God can go far and wide and that the gospel of Jesus Christ in the future can reach the ends of the earth.
Let us not misunderstand something- God wants His people to live in unity. The purpose of creation is for there to be harmony. Even when the people were scattered across the earth, He still made them live together in one identity and used the coming of Jesus to seal that message of unity, love, and peace.
Unity forces God’s blessings upon homes, assemblies and societies
The blessings of God rest only where there is unity. In a community, a church, an assembly, or a home where there is no unity, the blessings of God will either be absent or not multiply. Spouses and families must stay united to enjoy the blessings of God or have His blessings multiply in their homes. God’s glory resides in homes where there is unity.
The message of unity in homes and households is underscored in this scripture: “How could one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had surrendered them?” (Deuteronomy 32:30). Unity between two or more will force victories or triumphs and upscale divine glory. In the same vein, unity in diversity in w world that now has more ethnicities or races than before will forge peace and progress.
God wants spouses and families to live in one accord. At the creation of man and woman, unity for them in marriage was not given as hope; it was a command! “Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh” (Genesis 2:24).
He wants unity in the church. Ephesians 4:3-6 says, “Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to one hope when you were called; one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all”
The purpose of God is unity within those different nations He created after the destruction of the plan for Babel: “God delights in unity among his people who have “the same love, being of one accord, of one mind” (Philippians 2:2).
God wants nations, ethnicities, and races to unite and work in unity: “Bring to me all the people who are mine, whom I made for my glory, whom I formed and made. Bring out the people who have eyes but don’t see and those who have ears but don’t hear. All the nations gather together, and all the people come together” (Isaiah 43:9).
Friends, the ultimate purpose of God is for His will for us to be done, and He makes it clear that this is possible only when we work in one accord. Whether from the family level to the global level or from the church to communities, unity is the message, and this, from our teaching today, can be understood as the catalyst for God’s blessings in our lives.
- Pastor Sam Adelusimo is the Resident Pastor, RCCG Chapel of Praise, Northwest, Arkansas, United States of America
