Message by Larry Thacker Jr. from March 29, “Created for Community”
During this time of separation, it’s all the more important that we find ways to be in fellowship with one another. God created us for community. He Himself is three in one! From the beginning of creation we were not meant to be alone. When God made the world, you might remember that after each day He “saw that it was good.” But do you remember the one thing he said was not good? After He made Adam, He said, “”It is not good for the man to be alone” (Gen. 2:18) Now it isn’t that God thought He was all done and then realized He’d missed something. He did it this way to teach us the importance of the concept.
Later Solomon would write in Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 about the strength and protection that is found when there is more than one. We find the early church meeting together both in places of worship and in their homes sharing meals. The author of Hebrews exhorts us not to give up assembling together (Heb 10:24-25.)
How can we endeavor to live together as God intended during this time? we pray it will be short, but I hope the lessons we learn will last a very long time. It’s not just during this period of crisis that we need to be looking out for each other, especially those who were isolated even before it began. Let’s strive to live in community in new and better ways long after this current storm has blown over.
