needing each other

Christianity is never a "one man band." It is true, instead, that we need each other. This is in part what church is all about. That we are there for each other, through good times and bad. Advocates rather than adversaries.

I saw this in action yesterday as a brother reached out to me and I could be honest with him, and we could again try to set a time to get together soon. And through my wife's prayers, I had a sense of the Holy Spirit with us, and helping us yesterday, when I was at the nursing home with my guitar, singing hymns with them, sharing a message from God's word, and visiting afterwards.

We do indeed need each other. God has made it so that we're both dependent on God, and interdependent on each other. Of course this works two ways. We are there for each other, both to give and to receive.

Do you see this as important for us who are following Jesus? How can this be healthy and good? And what might make it unhealthy? Are there times when we must carry our own load? Is it important that we come across as always having it all together? Or do we do better in following Jesus to be open as to our brokenness and troubles?

we're all needed

In the new heaven and new earth, I read somewhere* that while we will see more fully, that sight will come in significant part through each other. We're all needed.

Of course this is according to the revelation and truth God makes available to us.

This begins now in the new creation in Jesus, something even rooted in the old creation. Yes, we need each other, true around the world now, true in the fellowship of believers now all around the world, and someday true in a marked sense in the love of God lived out in the new creation in Jesus in the new heaven and earth.

What thought might you like to share on this?

(*Actually from C.S. Lewis, though doesn't seem to be in a book of his I'm reading now. But if I can find it, I'll share the quote tomorrow.)