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By yourself you’re unprotected with a friend you can face the worst. A threefold cord is not easily broken. (Ecclesiastes 4:12) When we get stuck in a rut, we need to have some friends around to help pull us out. We don’t need people around who are going to muddy up the situation or take advantage of us.
Avoid This Type Of Friend
A motorist once got bogged down on a road. He paid a passing farmer $5 to pull him out with his tractor. After he was back on dry ground, he said to the farmer, “At those prices, I think I’d be out here pulling people out of the mud day and night.” The farmer replied, “I can’t be out here doing that at night because that’s when I come and fill this hole with water.”
Friendship Is Powerful, And Doing Life Alone Is Dangerous
If we haven’t cultivated friendships, then when we get stuck in a rut, we don’t have anyone to help us. There isn’t anyone to pull up their vehicle, hook up their winch to us and pull us out of the trouble or trial we’re in. At the end of a service one night, after most people had left, I saw a group of about 45 of the coolest looking young people you’ve ever seen. They were hanging together and talking. This was the result of an iConnect group.
Get Plugged In!
Lord, purpose each person reading this to get connected with a group of friends that will lift them up instead of tripping them up. For it is through friendship that you reach your loving arms out to hug us and to pull us out of that rut. The enemy wants to single us out and put us under attack, but we denounce that in your name, Lord. And we commit to getting and staying connected starting this week!
