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Sunday, November
15, 2009
Relationship
It is up to each of us to work out and
walk in our own relationship with God through His Son Christ Jesus, and to
take ownership (stewardship) of that relationship with Him.
Think about a relationship you have been
in. Did you take ownership of it, nurture it and feed it with love, or did
you ignore it and allow it to die away? It takes a constant source of love
with trust and confidence for the relationship to grow and mature. This
relationship that you are thinking about, were you both involved in the
nurturing of it, or was (is) it one sided? How can there be trust and
confidence in the relationship let alone love if both people are not
willing to reason together. Sometimes we have to die to self, and other
times it is the other person that needs to for the relationship to continue
and grow in a healthy way. Either way, if you don’t work together, if the house
is divided, the relationship will fail and fall away.
Our Lord took on the ownership
(stewardship) of His relationship with the Father and was willing to die to
self for us; and in doing so He made peace with God and provided us a way
of our own relationship with God our Father. He was willing to work on the
relationship with our Heavenly Father and was able to build a bond of trust
and confidence with Him. Are you willing to do the same; are you willing to
die to self so that you can live together with Him today and for eternity?
One has to continue steadfastly in the
faith in order for one’s relationship with our heavenly Father to build
trust, not only on our end, but on our Father’s end as well. He who is
faithful in the least will be faithful in much. If we can be faithful in
the least of what He asks of us then He knows (trusts) that we will be
faithful in much; in other words in the deeper things of the Spirit that He
reveals unto us and asks of us. He trusts that we will not use those things
for gain in this life, but to use that which He reveals unto us to the
benefit of others; to build up the body of Christ; to be instant in season
and out of season, ready and willing to go about His work and business that
He asks of us.
As we continue to develop trust we grow
in confidence, and we mature in our relationship with God. And we begin to
realize that Christ is our confidence; He is the bond that keeps our
relationship with God in place. You realize that without Him you can do
nothing; and without Him there is no security or boldness in that you know
the relationship with our Father is secure and that you have the freedom to
reason together with Him because you continue to do those things that
please Him.
John 8:29 And he that sent me is with me:
the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please
him. (KJV)
Jesus Christ developed trust and
confidence in His relationship with the Father as you can plainly see in
the above verse. He knew without doubt. This is the same place that we
should be striving for in our relationship with our Father as well. Are you
willing to put in the effort and continue steadfastly in this Spiritual
relationship that has begun to see it to the end?
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