For real, God. You are smart.
How often do I think I don’t need anyone? Or, I know in my head that I do, but in my heart I think I can do it on my own? Or, beyond just “doing” things and really needing the help of others, just NEEDING others for who they are?
Friends, it is not good to be alone. Find people to love you and to love. We are created to be in relationship with one another. If you aren’t, you are missing out on the fullness of life as God intends. It’s important enough to fight for. Believe me, I know from both failure and success.
This post is for you, this post is for me.
I have been watching a show called “The Cleaner” about a former addict who intervenes in the lives of other addicts to get them on the path of sobriety, and as I watch the various episodes I often think that these people merely express what is true for all of us. To be genuinely human, to be a follower of Christ, requires a need for one another that the world, in its complacency and falleness, denies. Moreover, I think a biblically faithful anthropology is one that sees humans as creatures that are at core constituted relationally.