Builded Together part 4
We're all in this together. I think that's one of the most important truths that the majority of people seem to miss. Because all we seem to want to do is build walls. Draw lines in the sand. Make everything "us against them." Members Only club. And I understand where a lot of that comes from--it comes from a place of wanting to belong. Wanting to be accepted. Wanting to feel special. And what's more special than me being in when someone else is out? But what I've noticed is that people who feel this way tend to push people away. Because people who feel this way don't feel special. They feel as if they need to protect themselves. So while its backwards--isolating yourself because you want to be accepted... by pushing away the people that you think don't accept you--it seems pretty common. We sabotage oursleves and end up alone. That's no way to live though. Because to live is to love and to love is to live. And in order to love... you need something (someone) to love. In order to lay your life down for your friends... you need friends. Its not good for man to be alone, right? We are fitly framed together, we are builded together, and we grow together. Look at 1 Corinthians 3:9, "For we are labourers together wtih God: ye are God's husbandry, ye are God's building." And don't get stuck on that word "labourers." We're not talking about works and labor (which don't work). The phrase "labourers together with" is number 4904 in Strong's Greek Concordance and it means, "a co-laborer, that is, coadjutor: - companion in labour, (fellow-) helper." Basically what Jesus was saying in John 14:12, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father." We're not trying to live Jesus' life. Nobody can live Jesus' life except Jesus. We are experiencing His life as He lives it in us, and through us, and as us. We are doing the same works He did, and greater works, because He is working in us! We are co-laborers in the sense that He did the work but we get to enjoy the fruit of His labor. The fruit of the Spirit. Which is love. He literally laid His life down for His friends--for all of us--and now we can do the same thing, in a sense, by esteeming others higher than ourselves. By giving everything we have and everything we are even though it seems like the more we love the less we are loved. Instead of pulling back and isolating ourselves... we love anyway. Because its all about love. Its all about relationship. We are connected. Whether we believe it or not. Whether we want to be or not, in some cases. But its always better to love. No matter what. Because we are all in this together. One for all and all for one, as the three muskateers say. Measured through the chief cornerstone. Growing together into the temple that we are. God's husbandry. God's building. Builded Together.