"I got this." ...is a phrase that may be true, but may not be best. In our world, and especially in our American culture, we value individualism.

We may think we should be able to stand all on our own. We may think that just doing things ourselves is the easiest, most efficient way to do things. We may be anxious about opening ourselves up to dependence on others. We may be anxious that if we do open ourselves up, no one will be there to catch us when we fall.

All that being said, God designed us as humans to depend on other humans. Today we'll explore the blessings that come from human-to-human interdependent existence.

"God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array."

God created everything, including humanity and nature, in a way that was perfect. Today we see how humans depend on the nature God created, how nature depends on us, and the attitude we ought to have towards all of God's creation.

Because God is God, and we are not, it’s somewhat simple to understand that God designed us to depend on him (though we frankly quite often don’t think and act that way in our everyday lives). But what’s harder to grasp is how God designed us in such a way that he depends on us. And yet all at the same time, we depend on him. Back and forth. Interdependence.

Interdependence is the proper posture in which to live, and has inherent value, for 2 reasons: it’s the way God is, and it’s the way he designed us.