Pour It Out — God's Got More Than Enough
By Pastor Justin Cooper
My grandma had an afghan she'd made herself — brown, black, and red yarn, all woven together by those long knitting needles. Not the prettiest thing you ever laid eyes on. But my grandpa called it the knockout blanket. You lay down under it, put on Little House on the Prairie, and you were gone inside of five minutes.
What I didn't understand as a kid was what I was actually looking at. That blanket wasn't three separate pieces. It was one thing — made from three different strands, woven together so tight you couldn't pull them apart without ruining the whole thing.
Brother, that's a Bible word. Knit.
Look at Psalm 133 verse 2 with me. David describes unity like precious anointing oil poured over Aaron the high priest — running from his head, down his beard, all the way to the hem of his garment. Every part of him covered. Not a spot missed.
"It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments." — Psalm 133:2
And then verse 3: like the dew of Hermon — that morning moisture that appears without rain, just the right atmosphere, and suddenly there's life where it was dry.
You know what dew does? It refreshes. It cleanses. It nourishes. It satisfies. And it didn't come from anything we did. It came from God setting up the right conditions and the right atmosphere — and then he just... poured.
That's what God does when his people are unified. He doesn't trickle out a little blessing and say, "Let's see how y'all do." He pours it out. Excessively. So much that it runs and drips and flows.
"God will pour out his oil of unity upon a church like this. And let the dew of unity saturate a place like this. And then God enables us — because we have been unified and anointed and saturated — to go out and serve other people and to bless their life." — Pastor Justin Cooper
Now here's the thing you and I need to sit with this week. Unity isn't something you manufacture. It isn't a program or a personality or a really good meeting where everybody agrees. It can only come from God. The Father purposes it. The Son purchases it. And the Spirit produces it.
Your job — my job — is not to manufacture unity. It's to get out of the way of what God is already trying to do. To die to the flesh that wants to be right. To be filled with the Spirit instead of filled with offense. To grow in grace enough to let love flow through you to somebody who doesn't necessarily deserve it.
Because when that happens — when the church is knit together like that — we stop being a divided, distracted people and start being a vessel God can actually use.
The world out there is one heartbeat from eternity. One moment from judgment. And the only thing that can change it is the good news of Jesus Christ — carried by people like you and me.
Fight for unity.
Pour out mercy.
Let God saturate the place.
Gospel Light Baptist Church | Walkertown, NC
