Breaking Down The Middle Walls

UV 1384/10,000 Breaking Down Middle Walls
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us
Ephesians 2 v 14

A wall should be around us and not built right in the middle. A wall around is a bastion of support and protection but out in the middle it is an obstruction, a hindrance, a barrier. There is a wall out in the middle separating God and man and a wall separating race from race, nationality from nationality, culture from culture, religion form religion, class from class, language group from language group, community from community, family from family, individual from individual. The wall creates hostility between these. Jesus broke down the wall of hostility by His own body and life. He became the peace between God and man, between man and man. The peace will not end but it will increase from generation to generation as prophesied by Isaiah. It is a covenant of peace as well as a covenant of love and hope. He came to bring glory to God in the highest and to bring peace and goodwill among all mankind. To do this His words have to act like a sword of the spirit acting on our hearts and minds, excising what causes grief or pain to the Lord. In fact, He breaks down the middle wall inside each of us and ends the conflict with our inner self. He declares wholesome peace or Shalom inside us. He builds walls of love, protection and blessing around us.

Having established peace inside us, He guides us on the way to peace. He breaks down all kinds of barriers. He brings inner healing and salvation to all. He removes the constraints and restrictions on our personal development. He transforms our perspectives and thereby transforms our reality. Each of us inhabit different worlds at the same time-the world of thought, the world of relationships, the world of our emotions, the world of our imagination and so on. The Lord Jesus influences and impacts each of these worlds and teaches us how to navigate to and from each of these spheres.

Jesus is the reconciler of all things and all people to God. He is an integrator. He integrates us and brings us together. We are fitted into one body. The whole body is fitted and compacted together, supplying nourishment and strength to each joint and tissue, enabling the body to function and to be built up in love. We have a choice to live our lives in different parts or pieces or allow the different pieces to come together in the peace of Jesus. His body was broken as the ultimate sacrifice of love to unite us to live in peace. The price of unity has been paid. It is up to us to appropriate or reject the blessings of such wholesome peace, love and hope.

Prateep V Philip