Does It Really Take A Village?

Does it really take a village to raise a child? How about a grown-up? Are you your brother's sister's cousin's keeper? Maybe you should be. I think that we are supposed to be way more concerned with other people than we typically are.

Now it's easy to love your best friend and help him or her through hard times. But what about those who hang on the fringes? The ones who are quiet and won't insinuate themselves onto you. They are part of the body and need protecting and loving. What happens when they fall on hard times? Who hears? Who knows?

As Christians, we are responsible for each other. "They will know you are My disciples because you love each other." God expects us to love each other. That means taking care of each other.

How much does that cost? Easy to do with your good friend. Are you willing to let it cost you something for that quiet one that you don't even know well? Offering up something easy and quick without attempting to really meet the need is not honorable. God said He wouldn't even bless sacrifice if it wasn't done in love.

Here's another one: what if the breakthrough that someone else is waiting for depends on you? I wonder about that. What if it's your fast, your time, your income that helps them launch into their destiny? Does God ask us to be that dependent on each other? I wonder.

There's a lot to the imagery of the body, hands, feet, arms, legs, etc. If we want to function like a real body, we have to take care of all the parts. Personally, I take a lot of care of all my parts. It usually hurts otherwise. You can't take care of those parts without knowing what they're supposed to do and how they're working. It's takes being up close and personal.

I don't want to stand before God some day and have Him show me all the times that I was expected to do something for someone and didn't do it. I look at my friends as my people. They're the ones that God put me in charge of, and vice versa.

Who are your homies? Who has God put you in with to take care of, to support, to launch into destiny? It may not take a village, but it does take you.