If Jesus came among us only because of our weakness or need, or because of the presence of sin, would he then be estranged by its absence or by our self-sufficiency and strength? As in any relationship, the need of only one is not enough to sustain it. Giving is not sufficient motivation for staying together since it sounds the relationship on weakness and is threatened by, or unbalanced by, the emergence of that other person. Growth undoes it. So there must have been something more, something mutual and a basis for growing together, a union not reliant for its definition on continued need, weakness, or sin.
Giving may be okay in therapy or in social services to just meet needs (though even in those settings I am not so terribly sure it suffices), but then when the need has been met or the crisis resolved the relationship ends. To continue, it would be disrespectful and would foster a less than healthy reliance. Maybe it can change, becoming something different, but the former reason for being together is over.
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