Together we stand or separated we fall
Below you will read one of Aesop's fables I ran across in a Maxwell book. It is so true. The world we live in is cursed by those that will separate and divide us. The world could be reached with the gospel in our generation. Lives could be changed but Satan separates us from each other. Christians prefer to fight Christians than to fight Hell. What is up with that.
We have become so sectarian and forget what Jesus told His apostles.
Luke 9:49 And John answered and said, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name; and we forbad him, because he followeth not with us. 50 And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.
A story called “The Lion and the Three Bulls,” written by the Greek fable writer Aesop, gives insight into how important it is for teammates to be communicative. Three bulls lived together for a long time in a pasture. Though they ate and lived side by side, they never spoke with one another. One day a lion came along and saw the bulls. The lion was very hungry, but he knew that he could never attack three bulls at once because together they would overpower him and kill him. So the lion approached the bulls one at a time. Since one bull never knew what the others were doing, they didn’t realize that the lion was working to separate them. The lion, who was crafty, succeeded in dividing them, and with them successfully isolated, he attacked them individually. Thus he overcame all three of them and satisfied his hunger.
Aesop concluded the story by stating, “Union is strength.” But there can be no union without good communication.
John C. Maxwell, The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants (Grand Rapids, MI: HarperCollins Leadership, 2006).
