Your relationship with God matters, your relationship with your family matters, your relationship with your co-workers matter, your relationship with others matters...relationships matter! This is something that I am starting to see more and more. As I have begun to open up to people God has showed me how important relationships really are. We are meant to be in relationships. We are relational beings. We are met to have a relationship with God, but also with other people. God is still taking me through what this really means, but that is what I have been thinking about these past two weeks. I have been diving into God's word and seeking God's truth on this topic of relationships so we will see where He leads me as He reveals to me the significance of relationships in my life.
I know this doesn't seem like new information and I have heard that we are relational beings before, but there is something deeper there. Relationships affect so many parts of our lives and who we are. If we are in a relationship with God then that relationship should affect the rest of our relationships. There comes a break though somewhere for me, and for most people, where a broken or betrayed relationship(s) can have a negative effect that is so strong that it affects all of our other relationships, even our relationship with God. This is where things go wrong when we allow our broken or betrayed relationships with others to affect our relationship with God instead of it being the other way around (Our relationship with God affecting our broken or betrayed relationships). Broken relationships, in any form, can cause pain, but also if allowed to do so can cause this unnecessary fear of people, which can hinder all of our relationships.
This is just a short glimpse into some of things that I have been thinking about lately so we will see where God takes me on this journey and study of relationships and fear.
