Divine favour is an act of service, an act of kindness. All of us are undeserving. Yet, He reaches out His hand and impartially bestows upon us the blessings of His kingdom.

There isn’t a patch of land in this entire world that is exempt from the sufferings brought on by our fallen state. Wherever you go, you see fighting and scrapping, burning and destroying. That is what we equate survival with now: the big trampling on the small to keep climbing upwards. Preaching union in a world that has practically forgotten what the word means is going to be tough. It’s everyone for themselves out there. 

The inevitable truth is this: nothing will get better without divine favour and the union of the people. Nothing will get better by individuals carrying the weight on their back because they do it for their own glory and nothing else. Nothing will get better by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps because there are no straps long enough to lift us out of this hole. Nothing will improve from our own human ability to think our way out of things because we can only see so far ahead of us. We must instead be guided by His acts of service and kindness. We must instead pull together as we look to Him. 

It’s a big ask for us. We have spent so long walking away from Him that to turn back now puts our pride in great danger. That’s a good thing. Our pride has only lead us further away from the light, deeper into darkness. We cannot afford to waste another moment facing the wrong way.

We’ve also been told time and again that the only thing that matters is us and our wellbeing and that caring about other people’s lives somehow puts that in jeopardy. It does not. Caring about other people is caring about yourself. Once you understand that you are one, then your neighbours plight becomes your plight, your successes become theirs. Not caring about people doesn’t mean that you are unaffected by their existence, no matter how hard you try to block them out. 

We have the chance now to walk back towards the light together, starting today.