The Pulpit The unity God desires Ephesians 4:1-6

One of Aesop’s fables tells of four oxen who were such great friends that they always kept together when feeding. A lion watched them for many days with longing eyes but, never being able to find one apart from the rest, was afraid to attack them. Whenever he came near, they turned their tails to one another so that whichever way he approached them he was met by horns. At length he succeeded in awakening jealousy among them, which grew into a mutual aversion, and they strayed a considerable distance from each other. The lion then fell upon them singly and killed them all. The moral is, “United we stand, divided we fall.” The apostle Peter in his first epistle, in the fifth chapter vers