"My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him."
Though the saints can and do need each other in the church; and though we are all dependent (to some extent) on people in the world that we do not (and never will) know--still, in the end, it is God *alone* that we *must* have. Without Him, our lives are worthless and miserable. With Him, everything else comes into proper focus.
Sometimes churchmen have to "wait" for Christ. This is not because He is too busy for us, or that He does not care for us--but it is because this is one of the ways God develops faith, balance, and grace in His children.
[Puritan quote of the day: "If you would be rid of Satan from coming into your quarters, fall you upon his." --William Bridge, in "A Lifting Up for the Downcast"]
