Community

In our weekly devotional, I include a link to the message shared at our Married Life Night Out event. If you did not attend, I encourage you to watch this video with your spouse; Pastor Ted Cunningham (speaker) offers excellent insights on including fun in your marriage. Further, he provides a significant value we should be thankful for – people in our lives who love and support us. Although couples are to be one (Genesis 2:24) and Christ-centered (Galatians 2:20) – we also need community. King Solomon writes, "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" (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, ESV). 

This companionship is true not only for married couples but for all people – children, students, singles, widows, elderly. We all need community – but we also need to provide a community for others. In Exodus, we find Moses situated himself in a place of intercession for God's people, and his raised hands were linked to victory by God's power. I love the passage depicted in this scene when Aaron and Hur are holding up Moses' arms, aiding in the defeat of the Amalekites, and "So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. (Exodus 17:12-13, ESV). Let us try and help steady the hands of others and be thankful for those who do the same for us.