STICK TOGETHER

For years, scientists have wondered how fire ants, whose bodies are denser than water, can survive floods that should destroy them. How do entire colonies form themselves into life rafts that can float for weeks? A newspaper article said that some researchers had discovered that tiny hairs on the ants’ bodies trap air bubbles. This allows thousands of the insects, “which flounder and struggle in the water as individuals”, to ride out the flood when they cling together.

The New Testament speaks often of our need to be connected to other Christians in order to survive and grow in our relationship with God. In Ephesians 4, Paul wrote, “We should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine.” He added, “But, speaking the truth in love, may [we] grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love” (VV.14-16, NKJV).

Alone, we sink; but holding and growing together in Jesus, we can ride out every storm. Let’s stick together!

Thinking it over . . .

Is your instinct to sort things out on your own or to get help? What might it look like if you shared your struggles with your youth leader and youth group?

CHRISTIANS STAND STRONG WHEN THEY STAND TOGETHER.

YouTh Edition – Our Daily Bread Ministries