Living Together - And Enjoying It!

Take delight in honouring each other.
Romans 12:10

We tend to forget about others - until we need them! And we do. Take away one link and the chain breaks. Take away one player from the team and the game is lost. Even a tiny screw, if it falls out of your carburettor, can bring the whole car to a screeching halt. What's the point? Simply this - we need each other! If you're self-seeking, self-centred and self-sufficient, today's devotion is especially for you. John Donne wrote: "No man is an island" so let's stop acting like one.

To make life work the way God intended it to, we must learn how to lean on others yet know how to lend them our support; be generous enough to give yet always be humble enough to receive; be honest enough to confessour faults yet always be willing to forgive others. Are you getting the idea?

Love and acceptance are not optional. Neither is tolerance or understanding or patience - you know - all those things you need from others when your humanity crowds out your divinity.

God's Word says,"Take delight in honouring each other...Be patient in trouble, and prayerful always. When God's children are in need, you be the one to help them out" ( Romans 12:10-13 ).

"Why should I do that?" you ask. Because each one of us is worth it even when we don't act like it, or feel like it, or deserve it. Furthermore,since none of us is a whole, independent, super-capable, all-powerful-hot-shot, let's quit acting like we are.

Life's hard enough without playing that silly game!