Stick Together

[Chad]

Stick Together

Our Daily Bread Radio is hosted by Les Lamborn

For years, scientists have wondered how fire ants, whose bodies are denser than water, can survive floods that should destroy them. How do entire colonies form themselves into life rafts that can float for weeks? A Los Angeles Times article explained that engineers from the Georgia Institute of Technology discovered that tiny hairs on the ants’ bodies trap air bubbles. This enables thousands of the insects, “which flounder and struggle in the water as individuals,” to ride out the flood when they cling together.

The New Testament speaks often of our need to be connected to other followers of Christ in order to survive and grow spiritually. In Ephesians 4, Paul wrote, “We should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine.” He added, “But, speaking the truth in love, may [we] grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love” (vv.14-16).

Alone, we sink; but clinging and growing together in the Lord, we can ride out every storm.

Let’s stick together!

We can’t avoid the tossing storms of life,
And we survive while carried to and fro;
We’ll stick together as we face the strife,
And in God’s strength the victory we shall know. —Hess

Christians stand strong when they stand together.

 

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Amen!!!

I don't believe we were ever meant to walk this walk alone.

I'm sure God meets us many times one on one, but I don't think the Bible guarantees he will ALWAYS meet us when we are alone, however when there are two or more..
Mat 18:20 "For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst."

Two are better than one. In fact three is even better than two
Ecc 4:9 Two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor.
Ecc 4:10 For if either of them falls, the one will lift up his companion. But woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.
Ecc 4:11 Furthermore, if two lie down together they keep warm, but how can one be warm alone?
Ecc 4:12 And if one can overpower him who is alone, two can resist him. A cord of three strands is not quickly torn apart.
There is strength in numbers.

Relationships are often messy, however it's hard to "love one another" when we are hermits that don't personally get involved with other people.
Heb 10:24 and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds,
Heb 10:25 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.

Gen 2:18 Then the LORD God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

John 13:34 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.

Sometimes it's good to have others encouraging us, "cheering us on" in our walk so to speak.
1Th 2:11 just as you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you as a father would his own children,

It's hard to be a member of a "body" of believers when we aren't involved in a church (I don't mean the building).
Rom 12:4 For just as we have many members in one body and all the members do not have the same function,
Rom 12:5 so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.

I think too many times we try to do this walk alone, with no one praying for us, no accountability, no one for us to pray for, and we wonder sometimes why we fail. Yes we can do all things through him who strengthens us, but do we always have to do it alone? I have even found that sometimes it is encouraging in my walk when others are depending on me to pray for them. I have been in small prayer and study groups and listened to others prayer requests, sometimes it's a good reminder to know that I'm not the only "non-perfect" sinner in the world, and that other Christians have the same problems I do. I don't know where I would be without others praying for me.