“My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me.” John 17:20-21
Lord Jesus, we are grateful you constantly pray for us. For surely, all your prayers will find a grand fulfillment, including this prayer. You don’t pray for uniformity, but unity—a glorious display of our diversity becoming a bouquet of grace. A Gospel-garden, whose aroma and beauty convinces the world the Father sent you to reconcile us to Himself, and to one another.
Only the Gospel can do this: Hostilities replaced with hospitality. Meanness usurped by kindness. Rancor giving way to welcome. Dividing walls retrofitted as healing bridges. Segregating by pride and fear, becoming congregating by mercy and grace.
Throughout the world, non-essentials, and non-eternals, continue to divide us as your people. Forgive us, and heal us, Jesus. Our call to unity, and your prayers for it, are of critical importance for the foreseeable future.
No matter who our next president will be, you are our King, now and forever. May the Gospel become beautiful and believable to a divided USA through a united US. Send your Spirit, please. So very Amen we pray, in your tender and triumphant name.