Life Is Relationship

Do you know when God first noticed something was wrong with the world He’d created? It wasn’t Eve and the apple. It was Adam, standing by himself in the garden. In the face of His glorious creation, God saw that something was still incomplete. He said, “It is not good that man should be alone.”

And still today, we all feel this in our deepest heart. As the cliché goes, no one on their deathbed ever wished they spent more time at the office. When you look back over your life, what will ultimately matter will be your personal relationships. Your family. Your spouse. Your children. Your closest friends.

If life matters at all, it’s in loving and being loved. But it’s not a guarantee. It’s an opportunity, and it becomes something like a gift.

Life is relationship. It is not good for you to be alone.

The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” —Genesis 2:18

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