Reaching Out

Most of us feel that we don’t want to bug someone or feel we aren’t worthy of their time when we need help or are in distress.  This tends to keep us in isolation as we try to work out things on our own.  This isn’t how God created us to be.  He created us as relational beings – to connect and to give and receive life from each other.  This is part of what gives life meaning. 

I don’t want to ever become too busy that I can’t respond or hear from others.  I don’t want people to think I’m too busy for them.  Each one of us are valuable.  We are the body of Christ.  That means that we need each other.  This is not a bad or weak thing.  I don’t have all the resources for my life.  I need others to speak into my life, too. 

I find when I reach out to someone, I feel better even if I don’t hear back from them right away.  When we are in distress and reach out, there is relief.  This is how God meant it to be.  Yes, He meets our needs too, but often through each other.  We need people with “skin” on.  Real.  Authentic.  Just being able to be who we are. 

It feels like we can be so afraid of being co-dependent we run, isolate and try to solve things on our own.  Yet God’s plan for us is to be interdependent, sharing life together as He intended. 

Sometimes we have a prompt to reach out to someone else to encourage them and then think it really isn’t that big of a deal.  Yet, it might be God prompting us.  It might be the very thing that is needed in their life today.  So let’s together learn to give and receive the way God intended.  Reach out to receive.  Reach out to give.  Let’s be the body of Christ and enjoy sharing life together!