It's an us thing...

What an amazing gift we give somebody else when we let them them know we are pulling for them! How important it is for each of us to know and experience that we don't have to run the race, win the prize,  or succeed all by ourselves! People who know some means of helping other people get unstuck and move ahead, need to speak up and be willing to offer support, guidance, and encouragement. Teamwork likely yields creativity and passion whereas self-focus leads to greater frustration and higher possibility of stagnation and grief.

Love which stimulates people to remain faithful to the Lord is the product of communal activity; this kind of love cannot be practiced in isolation from other believers (www.bible.org). We need each other if we're going to remain strong to the finish line.

We need to make ourselves available to those around us who find themselves in seasons of sadness, weakness, and temptation. Many in our families face illness, discouragement, and disappointment every day. They need the confident hope which springs from knowing Christ Jesus and trusting Him for daily renewal.

We need spaces where we push beyond chit-chat and dare to start talking about things which really matter... topics and ideas which lend meaning to our mutual walks of faith. Seldom have worthwhile things in our walks been attained through the ongoing pursuit of leisure, ego, and ease.

It is the will of Christ that we love Him and others more and more. We need to engage together in attitudes and actions which promote both holiness and wholeness. We need to have the gospel preached regularly in word and deed so that we can experience the mutual edification and strengthening which comes from being united together in Christ.

We need to pull together and for each other precisely because we live in evil days and we are often targeted by the schemes of the evil one. The evil one would like nothing better for us than for us to fall apart; he yearns for us to fall away in an age where we need to be standing firm, standing together, and learning how to stand firm together.

"And though this world, with devils filled, should threaten to undo us,
We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us:
The Prince of Darkness grim, we tremble not for him;
His rage we can endure, for lo, his doom is sure,
One little word shall fell him.'