This is a guest post by Brian Vishal.
Unity is the power of one team player, multiplied by the number of everyone in the team. It is the ability to fluidly tap into the power of synergism. When we unite, we exponentially empower our ability to achieve more than our individual efforts can ever dream of apprehending. Unity is not necessarily the conformity to a single person’s ideologies, but the oneness of soul, of purpose and of spirit; dating back to oneness of intention and the singular-ness of motive. In individualism, achievement can be substantial but under the same conditions and parameters, the unity of just two moves the scale from substantial to abundance.
Unity is so crucial that even God works within the unity of Trinity.
The wisdom of unity demands that everyone discovers the need for others. It further aggresses for the acceptance of others as contributors, support systems and members of our lives. We need to begin looking at each other as participants in a wider scheme of things rather than allow ourselves to be boxed in the devaluation of other people by basis of their difference and especially their ethnic blood types. We need to change the goggles of perceptions from that of self-importance and superiority to one of honour and modest appreciation of others. We ought to exercise adaptation to each other and we should all alike have a mutual interest in and care for one another. Unity is not uniformity; the outward appearance of oneness – it is the weaving and knitting of hearts and blood together by a thread called love!
Unity permits us to work together as a well-oiled machine. When each one of us takes the time to adapt to the other, our functionality becomes lubricated and our purpose easier to achieve. With unity, efforts are multiplied, skills synergized, abilities harnessed and purpose realized; faster. There is no worse trap or dangerous snare than disunity. The deception of the one-man-show is what has created the stagnation of entire societies and regions.
We cannot claim to be united in public yet tear each other apart in private. Loyalty should under-guard our bonds of unity so much so that who we are does not fluctuate or mutate as life transitions through amphibious encounters. Truth be told, our differences are too superficial to warrant attention and our arguments about other people too shallow to even consider. We ought to sacrifice our attitudes and our personal pride for the sake of a united nation regardless of imaginary losses that we feel we may incur. Unity has more benefits and profits than what division, separation, segregation and seniority complexes put together, can amass. In fact, most divisions are caused by few people for selfish gains. But every society that refuses to be separated eventually becomes stronger benefiting all involved.
In fact, giving honour and special treatment to our vulnerable members is a sign of our value for unity. In united societies, there should not be mention of marginalized groups, minority societies or ethnicity stereotyped on basis of weakness.
Everybody has something to give! Everyone has a contribution to make. And even to the strongest, there is still a need that their strength cannot satisfy for them but must be sourced from without. There is no societal progress devoid of cohesive and collective contribution by all and sundry. Accepting that we are not indispensable and that no man is an island is the closest it should get to realizing that the strength of one, is strength for all and the weakness of one is weakness for all.
A dream team is one made by unity; plain and simple! Unity is the glue that makes the destiny of purpose and the skill in people to stay together in a marriage of effectiveness and move together in a vehicle of power. Any moment that unity suffers, purpose suffers too. Disunity is a cousin to stagnation but singleness of heart is the substratum on which conquests are built, legacies are established and entire nations can have hope in a brighter future. We are infinitely stronger together! We are exponentially fruitful when united and we stand taller than any foe when we fight as one. One can chase a thousand but two can chase not two thousand but ten!
Great players do not win tournaments, it is great teams that do. I cannot attribute my success to prowess, discipline, good looks or intelligence. Who I eventually become is as a result of great, endless and enduring teamwork of a committed group of like-minded folk in my sphere of influence. Elections, politics and leadership positions are not enough Sulphur to ignite and burn down our love for friend and for country. No one’s ambitions are worthy of punches, insults, animosity of spilt blood! After all, why should we fight over somebody’s job? I pray that peace, love and especially unity shall govern our dreams. I see great prosperity ahead of us as a country but blessing comes on a certain condition – where there is unity, God commands a blessing!
I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree with one another in what you say and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly united in mind and thought. (1 Corinthians 1:10)