Our Savior's deepest desire is that we, as members of His church and ultimately members of His Family, become one, just as He and our Father are one. Christ's joining together that which is apart results in peace and unity. Joining the independent parts causes growth of the body, which is made possible by what every joint supplies. In a body of people like the church, it is the joining or bonding among the members that makes it function properly and beneficially to all. A body does not grow just in size, but its quality of life is enhanced by each quality joint. The smallest body of people consists of two members, who can form only one joint. A body of three members has three possible joints, and a body of four members has six. Notice how the number of possible joints increases much faster than the number of members. Among ten members, forty-five joints are possible, and among fifty members, 1,222 joints. For a body of one hundred members to be joined and knit together requires more than five thousand joints. Since the welfare of the body depends on what every joint supplies, our character is displayed in our relationships with each other, in the quality of the bonds we develop among ourselves. God is looking for pleasant fruit to emanate from every joint as it is developed, from every new relationship. He is not pleased with feeble, arthritic, unreliable joints. In time, billions upon billions of relationships will be formed between the various members of Christ's body, and each of these joints will add something of value to His Family. Each joint will be unique, deriving from the interaction of two uniquely talented free moral agents, and each joint will uniquely edify the whole Family. We have been given the opportunity now to develop strong, lasting relationships with God and with each other. Now we can begin to reap the benefits, the fruits, of such solid joints in Christ's body. Only if we are fitly framed together can we grow into a holy temple in the Lord. Such fit joints can and should be made now. Joined one to another in productive interaction and oneness of mind, each of us can be part of a Family that will eternally produce supreme joy, fulfillment, blessing, and glory. God looks forward in eager anticipation to the creatively pleasurable and edifying contributions that every joint in His growing Family supplies.