Togetherness

Acts 2:44 And all who believed (who adhered to and trusted in and relied on Jesus Christ) were united and together they had everything in common (Amplified Bible)


I just came back from band practice. It's so great to come together and worship God and play music for him, together as one band with one mind and purpose. For me personally, but I think that it applies to everyone, it's really necessary to gather with other people and share or do something together. In this chapter in Acts in the first verse that they were all assembled in one place. Powerful things happen when we gather and agree on something and pray for it. Besides that, I guess it's just plain comfortable to have people around you, whether life's treating you good or bad. 


And I absolutely love what it says between brackets here: who adhered to and trusted in and relied on Jesus Christ. The Greek word that is used here is pisteuo, which means exactly that; trusting in and relying on. We don't just come together for the sake of gathering or having a good time, even though these are really good things. We come together trusting in and relying on Jesus. We know that we are in good hands, in good and bad times. 


Love never fails,


L