by Reychelle Moira Lagat
Being a Christian is more than a title or a religion. It is a relationship.
So what’s your relationship status with Jesus?
Let your relationship with Jesus bloom and thrive in every season.
1. ONE-SIDED
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, so that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
God gave His Son for us, for me, for you, before we were born, before we knew Him. This is the start of our relationship with Him.
He loved us first and continuously does so.
Question is: Is it still one sided? Is God the only one pursuing, loving and chasing after your heart?
2. MUTUAL
Matthew 22:37 “Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’”
The next level of a relationship would be making things mutual. This means that not only do you know and receive God’s love for you, but you also love Him back.
What a privilege and joy it is to love Him back!
In a mutual relationship, because both sides reciprocate the love, there is visible growth.
Growth may not be happy or easy but it is necessary for a relationship to thrive.
Question: Is your relationship mutual? If so, is it obvious?
3. LIFETIME COMMITMENT
1 John 4:8 “… God is love.”
In 1 Corinthians 13 (the love chapter of the Bible) it talks about the importance of love and the treasure love is.
In a lifetime commitment, it’s just that. Commitment for a life time.
I suppose the reason why a lot of people and maybe even you reading this do not feel satisfaction or feel the lack, feel lost, feel purpose less is because you miss the abundance, the identity and purpose in the love of God.
I’m not saying a relationship with Him makes you perfect. A relationship with God is like any relationship BUT with the only perfect One.
It needs :
time – you cannot know someone without making the time to know them. Don’t skip the part of knowing someone genuinely and they get to know you.
sacrifice – your life alone cones with many challenges. Going through life with someone means that there may be times where your comfort and wants will be challenged for what’s best.
dedication – the passion, intention, and desires you have in a relationship must be seen through the dedication you have for that person.
identity – it’s hard to put yourself in a relationship when you don’t even know who you really are or your confidence wavers. In a relationship, you don’t change who you are. You grow to be a better version of yourself just as you and the other grow to be better together.
open mind – not everything you think is right and your perspective isn’t the only one out there.
listening ear – hearing things doesn’t change things. Listening to understand and create action makes the difference.
understanding heart – there may be things you don’t understand or realize but you must have faith, hope and trust.
willing spirit – you need the willingness and spirit to go on and grow even when challenges come
love – God is love and He must be the foundation to relationships so that when love overflows, it keeps the bond together.
Question; Are you in for just knowing “it’s mutual” or are you in for the lifetime commitment?
I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again. I grew up in a Christian home from both sides of the family and I’ve known God my whole life and loved Him as I grew.
But even up ’til now, there’s just no way I could ever get tired of His love, His Word and life with Him. There may be responsibilities and commands that God has asked us to do, and that may mean working for Him. But we are under grace and therefore, blessed to not just work for Him but work with Him.
When you know someone personally, you know what they want, go where they go, love the way they love and live the way they live. But humans are limited. Beautifully created beings but limited.
God is limitless.
Loving Him, being in a lifetime commitment with God means that even if you are not perfect, you are enabled, equipped, empowered and encouraged to know what He wants, go where He goes, love like He loves and live like Jesus lived.
Psalm 25:14 “The Lord confides in those who fear hun; he makes his covenant known to then.”
The closer you are to someone, the better you know them. The closer you are to Jesus, the better you know Him, the more you can love Him.
I go through ups and downs, trek through the valleys and hike up the mountains, I feel the exciting and happiest moments of life but also get confused and saddened. Through it all, His love helps me through. His love reminds me of God loving us so much, He sent His Son to save us first.
His love reminds me that His grace is enough and His mercies are new every morning to hold me, help me, and guide me. His love reminds me of the Holy Spirit He sent to be with me every day.
His love reminds me of who I am in Him. I am His daughter, His child. You are His child too. And it’s time to go back to our first love again.
Let’s not stay on the one-sided relationship, or simply mutual but in a lifetime commitment with our First Love, Love Himself.
Also, new video relating to this up: https://youtu.be/cS-t3J2TfvY
"Loving Him, being in a lifetime commitment with God means that even if you are not perfect, you are enabled, equipped, empowered and encouraged to know what He wants, go where He goes, love like He loves and live like Jesus lived."
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