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A Three Fold Cord

Posted on Thursday, April 3, 2014

I loveeeeeeee my roommates/ two other girls on my team. However, when I first moved here, it was hard for me to always be with them. Leaving America and moving to a new place, I realized how much I put my identity in what people thought of me back home as apposed to who I am as a daughter of God. Even though I loved my roommates a lot and could not have been more thankful for them, I wanted space to make a new identity for myself here.

A few months ago, I was strongly convicted of how selfish this was. I often went off on my own to meet girls and make friendships. Even though this in and of itself is not wrong, my motives often were. I have yet to share the gospel with someone who has heard it before. I would hate to rob my friends here of the potentially once in a life time opportunity to see the body of Christ. Though my roommates and I are just three, we are still the body of Christ. 

I have never felt so known in my sin as this year. I can hide my sin pretty well from people at home, at least a large part of it. But I feel like this year my roommates are seeing some of the very worst parts of me. And because of the Spirit in them they love me anyways. What a beautiful experience of the body of Christ I wouldn't get to have without living and working so closely connected to them. We have become like family, sharing the good the bad and the ugly, always having new opportunities to practice love and forgiveness and new opportunities to practice receiving love and forgiveness. God has also blessed us so much also in that we actually love talking about everything together and laughing together.

Ecclesiastes 4:12 says, "A person standing alone can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back to back and conquer. Three are even better, for a triple-braided cord is not easily broken." And John 13:35 says, "Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples." I am now loving bringing my friends into our little community of three, and praying that they see Christ in our love for one another. We have loved listening to a song by Josh Garrels this year called Bread and Wine. The whole song is great: I highly recommend it. I will close with a little part of this song. 

"And if I fall I fall alone but you can help to bear the load. A three fold cord is hard to break. And all I have I give to you if you will share your sorrow too and joy will be the crown upon our heads, my friend."

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