“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, one will lift up his companion. But woe to him who is alone when he falls, for he has no one to help him up.” – Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NKJV)
Community is a vital part of our spiritual journey. Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 emphasizes the strength and support that comes from being in a community, where we can lift each other up and share in each other’s burdens. In a world that often promotes individualism, the Bible reminds us of the importance of doing life together.
Consider the people in your life who make up your community—whether it’s your family, friends, church, or small group. These are the people God has placed in your life to walk with you, encourage you, and help you grow in your faith. Community provides a place where we can be vulnerable, receive support, and offer the same to others.
Being part of a community also means that we have a responsibility to contribute to the well-being of others. Hebrews 10:24-25 encourages us to “stir up love and good works” and not to neglect meeting together. This means actively participating in the lives of those around us, offering encouragement, and helping to carry each other’s burdens.
In a healthy community, there is support and encouragement. We are not meant to walk this journey alone; God designed us to be in relationship with others, where we can grow, learn, and be challenged in our faith. Community is also a reflection of the body of Christ, where each person has a role to play, and together we become stronger.
Prayer:
Lord, I thank You for the gift of community and for the people You have placed in my life to walk with me. Help me to be an active participant in my community, offering support, encouragement, and love to those around me. Teach me to bear the burdens of others and to be open to receiving the same. Strengthen the bonds of my relationships and use my community to help me grow in my faith. Thank You for the strength and support that comes from doing life together. Amen.
Verses to Meditate On:
- Hebrews 10:24-25 (NKJV)
“And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.” - Galatians 6:2 (NKJV)
“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” - Romans 12:4-5 (NKJV)
“For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function, so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.” - 1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NKJV)
“Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.” - Ephesians 4:16 (NKJV)
“From whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.”
