Run Together

I have the privilege of not only being able to read the Bible each and every day, but alongside my husband. There is something so sweet about being in the Word TOGETHER. We each gain perspective we may never have seen without the other, and encouragement and exhortation as we sharpen one another.

It has got me thinking about how vital it is to run this race WITH other believers...we can't do it alone. We are swimming upstream, against the currents of the culture, people, and Satan. Trying to do that alone will leave you weak and discouraged. Yet we often try to run alone, not because there are no believers among us, but rather because in our pride we become "self sufficient" and "self reliant"; we think we can do it. Truth be told we weren't meant to walk this life, set apart, alone. There are countless pictures throughout Scripture of this from David and Jonathan to Jesus and His disciples to Paul and Timothy...believers stuck together, encouraging one another and exhorting one another throughout their earthly ministry.

Proverbs 27:17 may be a familiar verse to most of it but look at it for a moment and pause...ask yourself, do I live this out?
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another. "

If we seek to sharpen one another we will be more effective not only in our pursuit of holiness but in our ministry of the Gospel and showing the glory of God. We must seek opportunities to spend time in the word together, to pray together, to serve together, to serve one another, to love one another, to run together!