I was recently preparing for a women’s retreat when I looked up Romans 15:5-6 in The Message. I was so struck by the beautiful picture of a community of believers. 

God wants the combination of his steady, constant calling and warm, personal counsel in Scripture to come to characterize us, keeping us alert for whatever he will do next.  May our dependably steady and warmly personal God develop maturity in you so that you get along with each other as well as Jesus gets along with us all.  Then we’ll be a choir – not our voices only, but our very lives singing in harmony in a stunning anthem to the God and Father of our Master Jesus! 

Isn’t that a glorious picture of Christ-centered, God-glorifying relationships?  “lives singing in harmony in a stunning anthem to the God and Father of our Master Jesus!”  Think about your church, your ladies Bible study, your family, your marriage.

How could the world NOT notice such a wonderful testimony of the Divine? 

It won’t happen until each one of us looks beyond ourselves, our wants, our plans, our preferences, our way of doing things, our opinions, beyond self to that which is far more glorious – the body of Christ.  Jesus dwelling in the hearts of mere mortals, each made in the image of God. 

Come ladies, let’s tune our voices and tweak our lives so we can sing in harmony in a stunning anthem to God. 

Blessings, Diane

Diane Hunt is part of the ministry team at America’s Keswick.  She is a regular writer for Victory Call and one of the authors of Crossing the Jordan Bible Study.  Diane has been married to her husband, John, over 27 years.  She has 2 adult children and 3 grandchildren and 3 adult step-children with 7 grandchildren making 10 in all.  She delights in reading and teaching, but mostly laughing at the funny things her grandchildren say and do.