One Heart and Mind
“The community of believers was of one heart and mind,
and no one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they had everything in common.”Acts 4:32
The portrait painted about the early Church by St. Luke in the Acts of the Apostles was one that expressed unity and communion. We are told that "the community of believers was of one heart and mind" (Acts 4:32). Then we are given a description of how they had put that "one heart and mind" into action - by sharing their time, talent, and treasure. They were able to do so because they had one mission and were One in the Father.
Are we a people of one heart and one mind? This means do we have God in our hearts? Do we root our identity and all that we do in the Father and His love? Then we must ask do we see our mission as one. The mission Jesus gave to His disciples was to proclaim the Good News to all nations and creatures. This Good News is the Resurrection. This Good News is the hope of eternal life. This Good News is the ransom paid for our freedom from slavery to sin. This Good News is the love of the Father. To carry out this mission in proclaiming this Good News to others, we first must ourselves receive it into our own hearts.
To live fully, which is also why Christ came: "I came to give you life and to have it more abundantly" we must be of one heart and mind (Jn. 10:10). We can try our best to make it on our own out there, but that's not living, that's surviving. Jesus came so that we can have life and to live it to the full! We must walk together with the same heart and mind. Let's get on our way.
Father, thank you for loving me and for having called me to this mission. Open my heart so that I may receive your love and in turn may show this love to others, so that together, we may all live life as you intended it - living it to the full with the one heart and one mind in You.
