200 words or less — Community

Do you ever wonder why we live in cities together? Why when your phone rings you get so excited? Why we can map our lives by the times when key people have come into or out of them?

Because in our deepest, most intimate being, we desire to be with people. We were designed to spend our lives with other people.

The worst thing that can happen to someone is not death or sickness or poverty; the worst thing that can happen to someone is death or sickness or poverty ALONE. We need to recognize the importance of community not only in our own lives but even more so in the lives of those who might be alone and don’t know what to do about it.

God, Himself, has modeled, since before the sun, before calendars and way before the internet — a perfect community. The Trinity, three-in-one, has existed perfectly for all eternity.

As image-bearers of Him who made us (that is, all of humanity), we not only desire that same community, we NEED it.

We were not meant to live this life alone. Find community and live in it.