Sportswriter Rick Reilly gave rookie professional athletes this advice: \u2018Stop thumping your chest. The line blocked, the quarterback threw you a perfect spiral while getting his head knocked off, and the good receiver drew the double coverage. Get over yourself!\u2019 <\/p>\n
During twenty-seven years coaching his ten-time national-champion\u00a0UCLA basketball teams, Coach John Wooden reminded them, \u2018It takes ten hands to score a basket.\u2019 <\/p>\n
His message lines up perfectly with Solomon\u2019s counsel: \u2018Two are better than one\u2019!<\/i> No one realises his or her best potential on their own. God\u2019s Word and life itself teach us that living is designed to be a team sport. In the very beginning, God established this principle: \u2018It is not good for the man<\/i> [or woman] to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.\u2019<\/i> (Genesis\u00a02:18\u00a0NIV) <\/p>\n
Being the \u2018lone ranger\u2019 was never God\u2019s intention for us. Loneliness is a killer. Companionship is the elixir of life. In Ecclesiastes 4:1\u201312, Solomon talks about the value of human relationships in a challenging and difficult world. And teacher Philip De Courcy tells us that Biblical wisdom embraces \u2018a theology of we\u2019 and \u2018rejects a theology of me\u2019 (see\u00a0Philippians\u00a02:4). To win in life, we need to commit ourselves to: <\/p>\n
(a) resisting the \u2018go-it-alone\u2019 spirit that often characterises our culture; <\/p>\n
(b) cultivating meaningful relationships and learning to treasure our friends; (c)<\/p>\n
staying closely connected to the members of the body of Christ; <\/p>\n
(d) reaching out to the lonely and the fallen; and <\/p>\n
(e) going out of our way to demonstrate the nature of real friendship (see Proverbs 17:17; Hebrews 10:24\u201325; Luke 10:25\u201337;\u00a0John\u00a015:13). <\/p>\n
Blazing your own trail is a dead-end street. Life shared is life fully lived!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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