Be of the Same Mind in the Lord

“I beseech Euodias and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.” (Philippians 4:2)

Apparently these two women in our text were at odds over something, who knows what. The Bible doesn’t say, but Paul, under the direction of the Holy Spirit, thought it necessary to say something about it in this letter to the Philippian church. Did it get resolved? We don’t know, but whatever it was, here we are 2,000 years later discussing it.

My mother-in-law said that when she was a little girl in the 1920’s she and her mother went to a revival at the beginning of the second week of the meeting. Up to this point nothing at all had happened. Not a single move had been made until the visiting evangelist, who did not know the people or the community, inadvertently mentioned a cow getting into a neighbor’s alfalfa field. Two elderly ladies got up from across the building from each other, ran to the altar and began to weep and to hug each other. Revival broke out and precious souls were saved.

My mother-in-law said those two ladies had not spoken for years because the cow of one of them had years before, gotten into the hay field of the other one. Not only had those two ladies not spoken, neither had the family members of each of the ladies spoken. Ill will and unforgiveness had hindered that church for years. Most of the church did not know the secret in the hearts of those two ladies until the Holy Spirit used that statement by the evangelist to get hearts right. Could one of those women have been you in need of making things right?