“As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.
‘I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me. I made known to them your name, and I will continue to make it known, that the love with which you have loved me may be in them, and I in them’” (John 17:18-26 ESV).
This great Love between the Father and the Son needs to be between us. It would bring us together as it did them. All that comes out of them would begin to come out of us. The world has struggled because we cannot come together; because we have kept ourselves from coming together they struggle with believing we have anything between us of any value to offer.
Where the two sticks crossed our saviors head bowed. Where the two sticks crossed the humble King showed us how. Where the two sticks become one is where we too become one.
The greatest common ground we have in Christianity is the Cross where Jesus bled and died. Our enmities began on a tree in the garden and they have ended on the tree at Calvary. Reconciled to God and reconciled to each other we stand at the Cross and proclaim His name among the nations. It is here our voice become as one. It is here the Father and the Son made their love clear, and it is only here where the two sticks cross our love become clear.
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