Relationships; From a Single Girl’s Perspective

There are all kinds of relationships, and lately, God has been showing me some ways all relationships are the same, and how my relationships with people need to model His relationship with me if they are going to be any good.

I used to take for granted that good relationships are normal because I was blessed with parents who are committed to Christ, each other, and the people around them; but in a society that says, “Anything goes”, healthy relationships are becoming harder and harder to find. It was not until recently that I began to understand more fully just how important God considers relationships to be, and that was when I realized that the Bible is really about His relationship with the people He created. God is all about relationships, and I can see this clearly all over the pages of Scripture.

We were created to be God’s intimate friends and walk with Him in the cool of the day, like Adam and Eve once did; but after that relationship was severed because of sin, our awesome God didn’t give up. He simply developed a different kind of relationship for us to have with Him, until the time comes when we can have the kind of relationship we were made for.

So often, I get caught up in trying to attain a ‘perfect’ relationship with God, but obviously, that will simply not happen until I get to heaven. Until then, God wants to show me what a good relationship looks like, and He wants me to live out what He shows me.  He wants me to have the kind of relationship with other people that He has with me; full of love rooted in truth. His loving has made me cry out in pain and His loving has dried my tears; that is how He wants me to live. Relationships are important to Him because He created them, and He perfectly models them to us so we can show the world what He looks like. In my everyday relationship struggles, He is there to help me. He is ready and waiting to give me wisdom in every single one of my relationships.