Let's Get Together

“Let unity be your destiny.”
Loren Thornburg

Often when I would go running with other people I would feel like they were pushing me to go faster only to find out at the end of the run that they felt like I was pushing them. This same principle applies in many areas of our lives. When we are working alongside people we go farther than we could go alone because of the encouragement and support that pushes us beyond what we thought we were capable of. We were not meant to go this life alone. We were created to be in relationships with one another. When we live life with others our joys are doubled and our sorrows divided. So, even when relationships get hard, don’t give up on meeting with others. Instead, consider how you can spur others on, come alongside them, walk with them. Make it your habit, your way of life. Walk encouraged, walk together. Let get together…Yeah, yeah, yeah!

“And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people do, but encourage and warn each other, especially now that the day of his coming back again is drawing near.”
Hebrews 10:25 NLT

There is a reason why Hebrews encourages us to keep meeting together. We need each other! We need others and others need us. Often in our times of despair we find any reason we can to convince ourselves it is better for us to go it alone. Yet even in our despair we are still a part of the body and are called to live like it. The example of our physical body is often used and with that can you imagine if the eye decided that the body was better off without it?! That sounds ridiculous because we know how important the eye is to the body. However, this is exactly what the enemy wants to do…convince us we are not the eye, that we are not needed, that we are better off alone, that we have nothing to offer, that the body is better off without us. The Greek word for body is soma, from the word sozo, which means to rescue from danger. There is protection in the body which means it’s dangerous to be apart. We are better together. The danger comes when we stop living like this is true.