As Christians, it is important that we find strength in numbers. God created the church to serve a very specific purpose. He knew that we needed one another, and that as a unit we would work better than as individuals. Each of us have different strengths that play off of one another. When one is weak, another is strong. One of the biggest mistakes Christians make is to go off on their own and try to fight spiritual battles all on their own.

As the Teacher points out two really is better than one. We are in the fight of our spiritual lives. We have an enemy who is like a roaring lion, seeking to devour us. We would do well to use caution. In Boy Scouts, anytime one of us traveled somewhere at night in the woods, we would always have to take a buddy with us. This was in case something happened to us or we ran into something, we had help dealing with the situation. It is foolish for us to walk in the spiritual woods without having a buddy there to help us resist to him.

In verse ten, the author also points out that if one falls, the other can help him up. Invariably in our Christian walk, we will fail to one of Satan’s snares. At that point we have two options: we can get back or we can stay mired in our sin. As easy as it is to say that we need to get back up, actually doing it is much harder. It is much easier if we can look up to our brothers and sisters and ask them for a hand up.