Grow it Alone?
Gina Baldridge
The Upper Room July-august 2010
The Upper Room Inc

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together as is the habit of some but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching   Hebrews 10: 24-25

The weather was windy and humid when I helped a friend plant spring flowers in her flowerbed.   "Plant them close together," when said; "these grow better when they're placed that day."  I proceeded to position the small plants with new white blooms in clusters in their new home.

Then I began to wonder How will they survive the wind, rain, and summer sun?  Will they really grow better planted close together?As I look over my friend's flower garden months later, the tightly knit group of plants has numerous blooms and is growing. The closeness has worked!   Living things need each other survive and grow.

As Christians, we grow too when we are in community, sharing life with one another. The writer of Hebrews knew the strength of fellowship and that in community believers find encouragement and motivation for love and good deeds. When the winds and storms of life hinder our growth and threaten to beat us down, in community we can fact the storms, strengthened by our devotion to Christ and to each other.

Prayer:  O God help us to encourage and to learn in community with one another. Amen.

Thought for the Day- God does not intend us to grow it alone.

Reflection
Let's look around and admire all the flowers that are growing up with us in our community today.
Lets not grow it alone! crsr