Are You One?

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 Are You One?

One - a few worldly things about One:

According to the Bee Gees, One is the loneliest number.

According to the US Army, you can be an Army of One.

In all forms of math one plus one equals two.

What does The Bible say about One?

There is One True GOD Who is triune!

Before GOD a man and a woman joined together are One!

Those who believe in the One True GOD can be One with Him through JESUS.

What does this say about being an individual? That we were never meant to be an individual! GOD created humanity in His Image so that we can be One with Him. He ordained before He created the earth that JESUS would take away the sins of humanity so that we could be One with Him through adoption. GOD Calls and Gifts us in our mother’s womb so that we can be One with Him.

So why do we want to be an individual alone - on our own? Before I became a Christian and since I became a Christian I have desired to be alone and enjoyed being alone, even though I’ve been married for 48 years. There are times when we all need to be alone, usually not for very long. We certainly need to be alone with GOD regularly.

Over the years I have thought that if I was alone I could serve GOD better, more dedicated. That may not be true. But from the beginning of creation GOD has meant for us to not be alone; that is why after Adam reviewed and named all the creatures that GOD had made on the earth, GOD saw that he needed a helper, a companion. So, GOD made Adam into male and female beings, He had made Adam as a complete human being both male and female, One.

GOD saw that it would be better to separate them and have them joined in marriage (which He created just for the purpose of rejoining the male and female into One being).”This is why a man leaves his father and his mother, and clings to his wife; and they become One flesh.” Genesis 2:24

Wait! When GOD did that there were no fathers and mothers! The only humans were Adam and Eve who He just separated from Adam. So GOD separated Adam into Adam and Eve (male and female) so that they could be joined together again in marriage. That is why GOD puts such a high emphasis on marriage.

Marriage between a man and a woman represents the unity we have with The Father through JESUS CHRIST, in fact in The Bible believes in JESUS are called the Bride and JESUS is called the Groom and there will be a Marriage of The Church with JESUS so that we are One. Believers are also called The Body of CHRIST and JESUS is the Head of the body, so that we are One with each other and One with JESUS.

If you have a hard time with what I’m saying it is probably because you are not reading The Bible to learn what GOD is saying to you. Read it slowly, read it everyday, if you do not have a lot of time then read one or two chapters in the Old Testament and one or two chapters in the New Testament. Start with Genesis and Matthew and read through, I try to read at least six chapters of the Bible a day, but I have been doing this for a long time. I divide The Bible into Genesis to Job, Song of Solomon to Malachi, Matthew to Acts and ! Corinthians to Revelation, plus I try to read a couple of Psalms and the chapter of Proverbs of the day’s date.

As you read the Scriptures thoughtfully asking The HOLY SPIRIT to teach you what He wants you to know you will be amazed how much you find the same themes throughout The Bible. Like Unity, being One with GOD and others, from the beginning when He made us in His Image to Revelation where we are One with CHRIST in His Eternal Kingdom.