More from Relationships: A Mess Worth Making

Relationships is everywhere, coming with all sorts of dynamics. God wants us to love one another, yet He does not want any god before Him. That is quite not easy haha

These quotes from Relationships: A Mess Worth Making shed some light on this

"When I live out a biblical sense of who I am (identity) and rest in who God is (worship), I will be able to build a healthy relationship with you... The identity I assign myself will always affect the way I respond to you.

Much of the disappointment and heartache we experience is the result of our attempts to get something from relationships that we already have in Christ.

No human being was ever meant to be the source of personal joy and contentment for someone else... Only when I have sought my identity in the proper place (in my relationship with God) am I able to put you in the proper place as well.

When we fail to worship God as Creator in our relationships, we try to ascend to his throne and do all we can to recreate others in our own image."

How scary is that?! That we try to make people like us and therefore we try to be God. I feel I have to constantly remind myself of these Truths. Relationships are so tricky and in a previous post I mentioned how knowing 100% of relationships will have issues is actually freeing. We may try to avoid relationships because of fear of conflicts to arise, but they will come. So rather than being afraid of what is inevitable, we remind of ourselves of our only hope in Christ. It is because of Him, relationships are made possible.