Apologizing to Jesus for ...

ORIGINAL POST BY TRACI VANDERBUSH: 
Last night, I found myself on my knees, overwhelmed with a sense of a collective, heavenly cry. I physically felt the weight of it pressing me to kneel, and to join in with that cry.
You know that oft-repeated question before the holidays, "What do you want for Christmas?" This past year I've often felt like apologizing to Jesus because He is yet to get what He prayed for long, long ago when He prayed in John 17 for our oneness. He said, "So that the world may know that You sent Me." He told us, "I am in the Father. You are in Me. And I am in you" (John 14:20). What mind-boggling oneness!
Much of Christian America has elevated the inferior realm above the superior realm. We have shut off ears to hear the hearts of brothers and sisters around us, and we bicker, quick to give our opinions. All the while, heaven cries out for our oneness. Jesus asked for our oneness. "So that the world may know...." Do you want the world to know who He is?
So I knelt last night, hearing a collective cry of, "Father, hold me!" Cries from all over the world joined with the cry of heaven for unity. The whole world will never know who He is until we put Him on display...not with signs, not with programs, not with selfish agendas, not by our political stance, but by being in Him, walking more aware of His realm, the way He walked..."he went around doing good...releasing captives and prisoners and healing all who were oppressed." Thankfully, many, many people are doing that today. I marvel over friends of mine who risk their lives daily to feed, rescue, and extend the hands of Love to humanity. THAT is how the world will know.
RESPONSE BY THOMAS COGDELL:
George Miley once said, "Is it conceivable that the Father's answer to His Son's prayer before the cross will be ... 'No'?" This should encourage you, Traci, that we WILL be one, as the Father and the Son are one. The question is, as you so beautifully put it ... "How long?". Usually it's us crying out "How long, O Lord?" but in this case perhaps Jesus is crying out to us, "How long, O Church?" ... and we turn a deaf ear because we're so busy with the other things we think He cares about. This is a matter worthy of contemplation, grieving, and repentance ...

Source: Traci Vanderbush  -  Posted on FB 27 Jan 2017