Relationship nowadays is the most common word we hear. Hey, look at that couple looks great together. Hey, have you heard that the sweetest couple is now divorced. Oh, she/he is married but still is in affair with someone else so far.
The Bible gives us a picture that includes both spiritual and social functions to our relationships. A myriad of verses we find the Scriptures speaking with clarity about the role relationships play in our lives. Foundational to all of these roles, however, is their role as pointer to the gospel. Ephesians 4:32 is a simple picture of forgiveness in relationships, but one that serves to point us to the forgiveness we have received from God in Christ.
Husbands, particularly, are told to love their wives “as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” In John 17:20-21 Jesus prays that his followers would have unity among themselves for the stated purpose that “the world may believe that you have sent me.” Apparently good, healthy, Christian relationships point others to Jesus. Likewise John 13:35 says that it is by our mutual love that we will be identified as followers of Jesus. Our relationships are constantly driving other people to, and/or reminding ourselves of Jesus. 1 John 4:12 spells it out in perhaps the most blatant terms.
John writes:
No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. (1 John 4:12)
Ephesians 5:21 says, 'Be subject to one another, out of reverence for Christ. ' Some have taken this to mean that the Bible teaches 'mutual submission' between husband and wife: in some situations the wife is in submission to her husband, while in others she exercises headship over him.
Ephesians 5:22-24 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
PROVERBS 17:9 He who covers a transgression seeks love: There is a time and a place for the exposure of sin (Ephesians 5:11), but often the sins of others should be tactfully and lovingly covered. The exposure of all belongs to God, not man (Luke 12:3).
He who repeats a matter separates friends: To uncover someone’s sin by repeating it to others will ruin relationships and divide friendships.
HEBREWS 13:4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Marriage and close relationships are all about building each other up and supporting each other, no matter what. God will watch over the both of you as you do so. "Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh."
A relation with GOD
The first and great Commandment is:
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and, love your neighbor as yourself" (Luke 10:27).
It is essential that we prioritize God in our relationships, no matter the connection. He should be the most important person in our lives and His word can help, guide us on how to love and respect others. Through deepening our relationship with Him, we can better care about those around us.
Talk to Him through Daily Prayer
The greatest way to create and maintain a relationship with anyone, including God, is through communication, and we use prayer to communicate with God. God wants to hear from you, and He is always available to listen.
A personal relationship with God is just like a relationship with anyone else in your life. It is fellowship, love, and trust between you and him. It means to know him and to be known by him. It's much more than just going to church or even reading our Bibles. We were created for relationship with God.
If you read through the Bible, every author knew the Lord uniquely and the Lord spoke very plainly to and through each one of them. We are the benefactors of their intimacy but the Lord wants each one of us to cultivate our own personal relationship where we hear His voice and interact with Him.
When we accept that Lord is enough for us, forever, when we say that Jireh you’re enough, its our faith in Lord that we don’t need anyone else in our life. When you say that I’m already loved, I’m already chosen, I know who I am, that is where it shows that our complete faith is in our Lord. There is no good time, no bad time to start over a relation with God, it starts by itself, as you start praying with all your heart. And that is the time you don’t want to forget what you felt. When you’re ready to be a content in every circumstance and you know what he has spoken.
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." John 14:27
The peace Jesus is talking about here is the inner peace or calmness in your heart despite troubles. It does not depend on your circumstances, nor does it eradicate worries or anxieties but gives you the ability to endure with strong confidence that God will see you through.
And so when you build a strong relationship with God, He helps you to make you understand about other relationships. God is with you and so you don’t have to worry about anything, leave everything upon him.
Prayer
Lord, clean our hearts, strengthen us with all your love, help us to build and maintain our relationships with you and with others. Help us so we don't hurt others, make us able to forgive others fault and love to be restored. Help us not to cause any angry division and painful separation.
In Jesus name we pray. AMEN.
