Camaraderie – Collaborating – Companioning.
The three words share common ground with yet another ‘C’ word – a special kind of word capturing what the others might reflect. Community. And, the very creator offering a believer his companioning presence – what a treasure!
“Faith was never meant to be done alone”.
Whoever coined the line understood, and must have surely prized, its profound truth. It reflects the human order when at its best.
The wonder of collaborating with God as a principal partner in life transformation means discovering that he brims with community within himself.
God’s three-in-one Community – boundless in love, delight and power – defies our capacities to imagine or describe. The nature of the divine trinity – God the Father, the Son and the Spirit – intrigues and stupefies the finite mind.
The old Puritans of centuries past coined a pithy term that calls up the warmth of their image of God. A glorious personal being of extravagant love, joy, goodness and peace. God (the Puritans testify) is, in himself, “a sweet Society”.
May we dare to imagine our sweet-society God, radically partnering with his children in the forever enterprise of shaping us, day by day, into the likeness and nature of Jesus. He, who is all goodness, through and through.
©2025 Jerry Lout
The power of community to encourage and support – priceless!