We Need Each Other-DD 7/2/2010

"Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another." Prov 27:17

Beloved we were not meant to walk this Christian journey alone. Part of God's plan for each of us is each other. The scriptures are replete with examples of how we are to take care of and look after one another.

• Acts 4:34-35- For there was not a needy person among them, for all who were owners of land or houses would sell them and bring the proceeds of the sales and lay them at the apostles' feet, and they would be distributed to each as any had need.
• Gal 6:1- Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass, you who are spiritual,restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted.
• Heb 10:24-25-... and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.
• Heb 3:13- But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called "Today," so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
• 1 Cor 12:12- For even as the body is one and yet has many members, and all the members of the body, though they are many, are one body, so also is Christ.
• 1 John 4:20-21- If someone says, "I love God," and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

More succinctly put, we need each other. When we are down, we need someone to encourage us. When we are happy we need someone to celebrate us. When we are outside the will of God, we need someone to correct us. Perhaps most of all, we need someone to need us.

When we play an active role in each other's lives, we strengthen one another in the Lord. We build each other's faith and thus our own. We please our Heavenly Father who wants all of His children to love one another. We are sharpened and honed for the journey ahead.

In Revival,

Lee