Ps 133 closes with the promise that where unity is present, ‘there the Lord bestows His blessing, even life evermore.’ (Ps 133:3)
Orchestras have to tune up before a concert, a sound that’s rarely pleasant!
Once the instruments are in tune with each other, however, the music they create sounds amazing! We sing, ‘Tune my heart to sing Thy grace’ (‘Come, Thou Fount Of Every Blessing’) so that we can work together in unity and therefore be in a position to receive God’s blessing (see Jn 13:35), a blessing that ‘makes rich, without painful toil for it.’ (Prov 10:22) Each one of us has a distinctive ‘sound’ to make, a role to play, a service to perform, but the overall effect of this is to bring praise to God (see Matt 5:16).
God has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing. (Eph 1:3) We are not just in ‘survival mode’, ‘scraping by’: we are people who can have abundant life (Jn 10:10), people who are heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ (Rom 8:17), people who cannot be separated from God’s love (Rom 8:37-39). God has great plans to bring unity to all things in heaven and on earth under Christ (Eph 1:10). He starts this plan by bringing unity to His church, through the oil of His Spirit and the dew of new life.