“Don’t try this alone.” –advice on a thousand exercise devices.
Years ago, the Readers Digest ran an article “What good is a tree?”
When the roots of a tree touch, a substance present reduces the competition. An unknown fungus links together roots of different trees, even of dissimilar species. A whole forest may be linked together. If one tree has access to water, another to nutrients, a third to sunlight, the trees find a way to share.
We could all take a lesson from the forest.
When I was a teen, someone set out a small longleaf pine in my grandmother’s yard. Year after year, it remained a dwarf, refusing to grow. After her death, an uncle who owned the property set out hundreds of trees across the front yard. Suddenly, that lone, dwarfed pine had company and began to prosper.
The Lord knew you and I would be needing help in living for Him in this fallen world. So, when He saved us, He “added us to the body” (see Acts 2:41).
God never intended any of us to live this life in isolation.