Relationships…talk about the ultimate challenge in life.
Learning to get along with another human being is just plain hard. It is an experience filled with heartache and pain and personal turmoil.
Your beliefs get tested and all your inner struggles and insecurities get revealed.
Yet, you power through because you know relationships are the best part of life.
You want to care and to be cared for. You want to know and to be known. You want to love and to be loved.
This just doesn’t happen. Relationships are built. They start with a good foundation and then with the right building materials grow and deepen over time.
Jesus is the foundation. He has equipped you with everything you need to build enduring and fulfilling relationships.
As you trust Him, you will see these seven relationship builders forming and shaping every relationship you have.
- Patience
- Kindness
- Truth
- Protection
- Trust
- Hope
- Perseverance
Relationships are the best part of life when they are built on the love of God.
How about the imputing, from Father through Christ in Spirit and truth and receiving, 1 Cor. 13:4-13 an imputed, grafted in righteousness that we participate in. Not my words Father’s
Romans 4:22
And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness.
Romans 4:23
Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him;
Romans 4:24
but for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;
i see not to build, but to trust and participate in what is past tense done by and through Son
Maybe build, but one as I did gets stuck in a works program, that brings much stress, forsaking the rest Father has for us through Son.
the old saying if one is at peace, seek, to know how and why, so one does not reinvent the wheel. truth sets free, works put one in bondage, so work, being at rest in that work, bondage is forsook
James 1:21
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
And it is engrafted into all that believe, the word of peace, righteousness, and joy that passes all understanding, for it is a gift. Any works takes away a gift, A gift has no works attached to it
Romans 5:15
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
This trying is good and a very hard work to enter Father’s rest he has for us all by Son, and not all see it, and yet God is trying to reveal it; it is by God and God alone, all it takes is one’s belief with (no doubt) as that woman that knew all she had to do was touch his robe and was instantly healed, Jesus said it was her Faith, “no doubt”, are we all listening? DOUBT is what stops us from being whole? And through Son we are made whole, and one little doubt destroys the fact that God so loved the world, and we go out and try to be and please, and we forget Godjustloveus, that foundation gets swiped away as we get busy in our works and we need to get back to the time of our first love, you think? maybe, we all have free choice, so you decide, I know I have.
Colossians 1:22
in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
Do we beleive the above verse? are we Holy; made pure by Son, or do we have to build. Now from father’s view are we Holy or not, thanks to Son?
The deck is cleansed by Son, and we are standing before Father, are we accepting the free gift of Holiness by Son and being engrafted in Spirit and truth? yet are engrafted it is done by Father to us, by Faith, time to maybe see this, and be what Father has done already for us
1 John 3:3
And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.Catch that, even as he is pure, how is that? By Son already pure
How is today the only way Father can be served?
John 4:23
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
John 4:24
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
I know this is a hard one to see the transfer from death in the flesh to life in the Spirit here and now, considering my own flesh dead, that still has to eat and not literally dead. But it is truth, a free gift from Father by Son’s finished work that it is what it is, no matter how one slices, dices and or cubes, truth is truth!!!!!!!!!!
There is no work on my part, your part, or anyone’s part, but to beleive and receive. When you hear the call, because Father is calling by the Holy Spirit sent to live in and through us, therefore when Father’s love lives through us our burden is light and yoke easy, just as Jesus said it is, we have then taken on his burden and yoke
Love you all, praying this is received in Spirit and truth
For me, trust would be the top dog. Learning to trust Jesus is essential for my sanity. I mean, what’s not to trust? Though all hell assail me, I will not be moved. The more I depend on Christ’s love, the less I dwell on the disappointments I have–in others. Still needing to cut my own self some slack. Maybe that will come in time. As if I don’t want to disappoint God, because I’m so grateful for what He’s done. He’s not disappointed, I know that. I just can’t act like it–yet. Thanks, Bob. Needed this post…