Tim's Topics: Teamwork and Knowing Who Our Neighbors Are!

Tim's Topics: Teamwork and Knowing Who Our Neighbors Are!: Ecclesiastes 4:9-12   ESV Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift ...

Teamwork and Knowing Who Our Neighbors Are!

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 ESV

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

a few years ago I had the blessing of visiting Johnson County Kentucky during the aftermath of flooding and storm destruction.  We might ask ourselves: “how can a trip to a devastated area be a blessing”?

The answer is easy: Teamwork

1.     It took our community coming together to collect items of need for Johnson County KY. During this collection drive we saw individuals, families, businesses, and an entire city come together to answer the question that was asked to Jesus: “Who is my Neighbor”?  In fact so much was collected that it will take at least two trips to deliver the items collected.

2.     When I arrived at the collection point with our first delivery, I witnessed an operation of clockwork precision. Churches, civic leaders, businesses, adults and children coming together as a team to help their neighbors. I was unloaded in five minutes and given a bible verse by one of the nicest teenagers that you will ever meet.

3.     Churches have begun to host meal locations to feed the victims and the aid workers in the area. And may I say anyone that was just wanting a warm meal.

Beloved, when God’s people come together in His name, magnificent things happen.  Yes, I was blessed to witness the work of God’s people in action. I was blessed to see that good people still exist and people still know who their neighbors are.

My prayer for you today is that you will get out of your comfort zone and feel God’s blessings that occur when God’s people team up as the Body of Christ.

This is the day that the Lord has made.

Pastor Tim.