One day while I was reading through the scriptures, I noticed that in everything God created he looked and saw that it was good. In fact, when he finished creation, he beheld and saw that it was "very good" (Gen. 1:31). However, when we come over into the second chapter of Genesis we find these words: "And the Lord God said it was not good..." (Gen. 2:18). Here, he was describing the condition of man being alone without human companionship.
It started me thinking. Why did God make man and afterward see that it was very good only to turn around and find within man something that was not good? And then it dawned on me. God created Adam with a need that could only be fulfilled by the interaction of his own kind. And, although we know that Eve was taken from his side and became his companion, God formed within man a much deeper need than just Adam's need for a wife. He created in man a need for relationship - such a need that would require the involvement of the whole of man, spirit, soul, and body.
Deep within the recesses of our being resides a need that every human being possesses. It is a need that nothing within creation itself can fulfill. People can be animal lovers. They can be nature lovers. They can be possessed with self-love, but without relationships that can satisfy the whole of man there will always be a sense of incompleteness.
Think about it for a moment. God created man in his own image after his own likeness. Man's spirit has within it a need to interact with that which is of his own kind - God! Nothing can satisfy the spirit of man outside of a relationship with the Spirit of God. Someone once described this need as a hole in man's heart - a hole that only God himself can fill. He may search far and wide to find "other things" to satisfy it, but nothing else will do. It takes the Spirit of God to meet the need within the spirit of man.
The same thing is true for the soul and body. Science has determined that when a person isolates his or herself from society that it leads to mental oppression and negative emotional stress. Without building relationships on a soulish level man becomes conflicted. It takes engaging with others to become emotionally complete. That is why the enemy seeks to weaken and destroy relationships. He knows what a profound effect it can have upon a person's psychological makeup if they fail to build deep and abiding friendships and relationships with other people. Failing to meet these needs has never and will never be a part of God's plan for man. It is just as necessary for us to build relationships with people as it is for us to build a relationship with God!
Here is why this is so important. The deeper you build relationships (spirit, soul, and body) the more complete you become, and the more you draw back from building relationships the weaker you become. You cannot be a strong spiritual Christian and isolate yourself from people. It is virtually impossible! In fact, I believe that your ability to reach your destiny is completely dependent upon building relationships. There is no one on planet earth that can successfully reach the end of their purpose in life without engaging in a relationship with God and man.
