3 Vital Relationships
September 18, 2020 Leave a comment
I’ve come to figure out that there are three relationships that matter the most in your life and are vital for you to be whole. I’d like to refer to what Jesus said about the ten commandments.
The ten commandments are summed up by Jesus as He replied to the religious leaders of His day. Jesus said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind”. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” Mat 23:34-40. From what He said the three relationships mentioned are with God, self and others. Let me get into each of them a little bit.
Your relationship with God. How you relate with God affects how you relate with other human beings. God is patient with us and gives us time to find our way back to Him. It’s vital for you to have a good and loving relationship with God. To have such a relationship you need to “confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved” Rm 10: 5-13. Then God will make you whole and whatever else you may be looking for in others to fulfill, He will satisfy you completely, you will not need to go looking elsewhere.
Your relationship with yourself. How you relate with yourself affects how you relate with others and how you are viewed by others. Yourself relationship reflects on others and attracts others like you. So if you don’t like yourself you will attract people who generally don’t like you. Its not as simple but there is a direct relation to how you will be treated by others. It’s vital to sort out the relationship with yourself in order to have a healthy relationship with yourself. Take note that;
Self love has nothing to do with pride and arrogance. One is respectful and courteous. One is considerate, apologetic, tactful and gracious.
Self love is a unique blend where a person is confident and humble. Meek and modest, not self absorbed, one is able to think of and accommodate others without looking for accolades and self importance. This is only achieved by having a relationship with God.
Your relationship with others. This is a culmination of how you relate with God and how you relate with yourself. That is how you will relate with others. When you reflect and do some soul searching you will find out that; How you relate as a human being in the strangest of ways is determined by how you relate to God and to yourself. Loving others will be an overflow from loving God and loving yourself.
So in conclusion the major relationships in your life are the one you have with God and the one you have with yourself. The one with others is as vital and is derived from the two. Many factors contribute to how you relate with God, yourself & others. Hence the need for you to take the time to explore them and figure them out, in order to have a healthy relationship with God, Yourself and others.
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