Musically speaking, I am a child of the 1980s. Few time periods in music history can match the power ballads of the 80’s. For example, consider the following titles the next time you are feeling alone.
Roxette: “It Must Have Been Love, but it’s Over Now.”
Patti Labelle: “On My Own”
Bonnie Raitt: “I Can’t Make You Love Me If You Don’t”
Bonnie Tyler: “Total Eclipse of the Heart” (If you were a woman named Bonnie in the 1980’s, it appears that there was a good chance that you were sad and alone.)
Heart: “Alone” (Nothing like cutting straight to the meat of the matter.)
White Snake: “Here I Go Again On My Own”
These lists prove a couple of things to us. First, your preacher has a horrible taste in music. Secondly, this list also reveals to us a basic human need for companionship. As people, we don’t like being alone.
One of the first needs which God addressed following the creation of mankind was loneliness. In Genesis 2: 18-20 we read “And the LORD God said, it is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him. And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature that was the name thereof. And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him.”
We know that God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and from his rib he formed woman, and from that day forward we have strove together in love and in life.
As great as it is that we have a partner with whom we can share our lives, we Christians sometimes act as though we are serving God from inside our own personal box. In fact, when Christ began to call His disciples to follow Him, it is interesting that He didn’t call them one-by-one, but in Matthew 4: 18-22, He called them to come work together.
“And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they straightway left their nets, and followed him. And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets; and he called them. And they immediately left the ship and their father, and followed him.”
Just as Jesus called these disciples together, so we should work together for the cause of Christ. When we refer to the “CHURCH”, we aren’t speaking of the building, rather we are talking about the body of Christ that is composed of each individual Christian. We have those around us upon whom we can lean for help and support, let’s come together in the vineyard of the Lord.
Rusty-
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