United to hear God's word

Today I seem to have been thinking a great deal about unity.  It saddens me when I see further afield and close at hand examples of Christians not being united. After all one of the great things about being part of the Christian Church is the way that despite the fact we are such an eclectic group of individuals we follow a common purpose of worship and mission.   We are all different and there are times when we will certainly rub each other up the wrong way but we need to work on our tolerance, forgiveness and compassion.  It seems to me that God works through our unity, through the relationships we have with each other to speak to us and bless us.  Psalm 133 speaks so clearly of this when the psalmist writes: "How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity ... For there the Lord bestows his blessing."  We see in our reading from Abraham the openness that Abraham has to hear God speaking to him. This always makes me think how does  God speak to me?  When I think this I go back not only to that still small voice but in the voice of God speaking through one of my Christian brothers or sisters. Surely this is one way that God extends his blessing to us when we live in unity with each other.