![]() ![]() CS Lewis says about friendship, “It has no survival value rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.” God didn’t create us simply to survive – he created us to thrive and to flourish. There, for the first time in the short history of the cosmos, something is pronounced as “not good.” What is it? “It is not good for man to be alone.” This is a pre-sin, pre-fall “not good.” Which means this is an imperfection that is being noted in the midst of Adam’s perfection, an ache that God built into us as those who bear his image.Īs a result – God creates “Eve” after which creation was pronounced, for the first time, to be “very good.” Why? It was not because Adam couldn’t survive without Eve (recall that Adam was made to live forever) but because Adam couldn’t thrive without Eve. If we were to open to Genesis 2 we’d see ourselves on the sixth day of creation. In his book, Drew Hunter talks about the fact that we all have an Edenic Ache, an ache that goes back to the Garden of Eden. To see why friendship is truly necessary – we must go back to the Garden of Eden. ![]() This realization is the tip of the ice berg of a the great truth behind the necessity of friendship. In other words, it was not what was before me that made this event memorable, but rather who was beside me. I remembered it because of the friendship I had forged as we connected together with the show. It is from my days as a pastoral intern here at Grace Church, and it is of watching this show in my office over the lunch hour with my friend Dan Montgomery, who was working on the building and grounds crew at the time.Īs I looked back on this memory, I asked myself, “Why do I remember this?” What I realized is that I didn’t remember it because of my connection to the show, or some primal urge within me to go out and survive alone in the wilderness. With this show, I have attached a specific memory. ![]() Wild.” It is the show where Bear Grylls goes out into the desert, or rain forest, or some other desolate location and shows how to survive if you’re all alone. If we were to strip life down to mere survival, we might ask what survival value does friendship hold for us? Is it truly necessary for us to survive? As I pondered this question it made me think of the tv show “Man vs. More importantly, is that how we live? If we were to put our lives under a microscope and look at how we spend our time, what we value, and what we give priority to, where would friendship fall? ” As a book on wise living, Proverbs teaches us that there is something profoundly wise about pursuing friendships and foolish about trying to do this life aloneīut is that how we view it? Do we value friends in the same way that Proverb 18:1 does? Do we see the folly in trying to live life apart from them? Do we think they are truly necessary – or are they just nice to have around? Proverbs is a book on wise living, as we’re reminded by reading Proverbs 1:2, “To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight. Proverbs 18:1 Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire he breaks out against all sound judgment.
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