It was said of Adam the first human being that is not good for man to be alone. Although this was said in the context of a woman being created to be with the man in marriage , it still speaks of it not being good 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
We have an innate desire for community. We were created for it. We were not created to live life alone.
Gen Z is the most connected generation on social media, but also the loneliest.
You want to belong, but belong to what?
What is the solution?
When Jesus was on this earth the first thing He did was choose 12 disciples. They were most likely 20 somethings. That’s who He chose to change the world. They believed in Him, but didn’t understand many things He said until after He rose from the dead.
He said we was leaving and going back with the Father, but He would send the Holy Spirit who would come to dwell in them. He told them to love one another. The day He poured out His Spirit, 3000 others believed in Jesus. They formed a new spiritual community called the body of Christ. They would follow Jesus in community with a spiritual fellowship.
You can find this spiritual community by doing what those 3000 did that day, and that is to believe in Jesus. Receive Him into your life. He will connect you to God and you will be connected to a spiritual family. This is the community your search for, and is found in Jesus.
When God created Eve, Adam was no longer alone, but they were deceived by the enemy, and lost their connect to God and to each other. What was supposed to be the perfect family, was now plagued with disharmony.
To rectify the situation the Son of God became a human being. He died for our sin so that we can be re-connected to God. The believers in Jesus form part of a new community called the body of Christ. It is a spiritual connection made possible by the Spirit of God.
Jesus said we must be born again by the Holy Spirit, and by His Spirit we have access to God the Father, and we also have fellowship with each other through Jesus. We can now experience community with fullness. The first step is to place faith in Jesus and invite Him into our life. Then we will have fellowship with Jesus and then with the spiritual family called the body of Christ. Fellowship is from the Greek word koinonia which means to have in common. What we have in common is the Holy Spirit, who joins us together spiritually.