Matthew 18:20 English Standard Version (ESV) For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.

Christ in you and Christ in me. When we come together He is there. This passage is not theoretical, it is real.

When we come together He is ready and willing to share Himself.

The happiest of times can be found in fellowship when we can see Christ in others. It is life confirming because Christ in us recognizes Christ in others.

We should never have to feel like we have to prove ourselves. We have the proof we need.

We are human and we all struggle with something. We can help each other with these struggles and when we are in fellowship our best help is Christ in the person in front of you.

Hebrews 2:7-8 English Standard Version

⁷ You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor, putting everything in subjection under his feet.” ⁸ Now in putting everything in subjection to him, he left nothing outside his control. At present, we do not yet see everything in subjection to him.

When we are in subjection to Him nothing is beyond His ability to control.

So often we feel like we need to do something but the real power to help resides in us, the love of Christ.

We are subject to Him. He is loving and kind and will not force Himself on us. He cares about us as individuals and will use Christ in others to speak the truth in love when we find it difficult to express ourselves.

Be subject to Him and He will use us to help one another.

We do not struggle alone.

Isaiah 8:16-17 English Standard Version

¹⁶ Bind up the testimony; seal the teaching among my disciples. ¹⁷ I will wait for the Lord, who is hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.

We are so blessed to be born in a time where much that has been foretold has happened. We are blessed to not only see the timing and the events, but we get to see His face.

People that lived in those times got to see Jesus face to face but few saw Him for who He was, the holy offspring, Emmanuel, God with us. Then His commission was complete that was spoken of by Isaiah and they saw Him no more.

We are so blessed to have never seen the face of the man and have come to know Him in His finished work. We did not suffer His death as they did, without seeing His glory unleashed. We see it from the position of His finished work. We are blessed by all the witnesses that came before us to show us His glory in man.

Hebrews 12:1-2 English Standard Version

Jesus, Founder and Perfecter of Our Faith

¹ Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, ² looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

See “let us also”, as a clear sign that we are not alone and we will never be alone again. Much of what we are is because of those who came before us, that great cloud of witnesses. It is easy to get caught up in the struggle that comes with new birth that we feel like we are on our own.

We are not.