Everybody Needs Somebody

“Two are better than one.” Ecclesiastes 4:9

No one realises his or her best potential on their own.

God’s Word and life itself teach us that living is designed to be a team sport.

In the very beginning, God established this principle: ‘It is not good for the man [or woman] to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.’ Genesis 2:18.

Being the ‘lone ranger’ was never God’s intention for us.

Loneliness is a killer. Companionship is the elixir of life.

In Ecclesiastes 4:1–12, Solomon talks about the value of human relationships in a challenging and difficult world.

Philip De Courcy tells us that Biblical wisdom embraces ‘a theology of we’ and ‘rejects a theology of me’ Philippians 2:4.

To win in life, we need to commit ourselves to:

A. resisting the ‘go-it-alone’ spirit that often characterises our culture;

B. cultivating meaningful relationships and learning to treasure our friends;

C. staying closely connected to the members of the body of Christ;

D. reaching out to the lonely and the fallen; and

E. going out of our way to demonstrate the nature of real friendship. Proverbs 17:17; Hebrews 10:24–25; Luke 10:25–37; John 15:13.

Blazing your own trail is a dead-end street. Life shared is life fully lived!