The Value of Your Relationship

The Value of Your Relationship

The Value of Your Relationship

I have mentioned this many times before in my previous posts, but I think it is time that I expand on it a little bit. I am talking about your relationship with your Heavenly Father and how it affects everything you do and how important it is to keep that relationship at the forefront of your life.

How often do you read your Bible? Once a day? Once a week? Once a month? Sounds sad, doesn’t it, that last one. But I know people who call themselves Christians and they have not picked up their Bible in several months and their relationship with God has now become stagnant and boring. There is no joy in their life and they do not really pursue God.

I have heard people say that you can have a great relationship with God without reading His word, and I hate to say this but they are wrong, and I mean dead wrong. To not read God’s word and say you have a great relationship with Him is like saying that you have a great relationship with your husband or wife, son or daughter and you have never taken the time to get to know all about them. When you loose touch with God’s word, you are not making any effort in trying to get to know God, His plans for you, what He wants to do in your life or what He did for others like you in the past.

It goes in a circle, the more you read God’s word the stronger your relationship becomes and the stronger your relationship becomes the more time you want to spend in His word. But you have to put in the effort first, you have to want to get to know Him, you have to desire Him and seek after Him. And the easiest way to do this is through the reading of His Holy Word, and through prayer (that will be my follow up post J)

This is where we find out how much value you put into your relationship. Those who put in great effort like reading their Bible everyday, have a great relationship with God, those who do not value it as much and only read their Bible on occasion do not have the same thing, and eventually their relationship with God becomes stale.

I hope you are getting at what I am saying here.

Believe me, I am completely imperfect in this department, I do not read my Bible everyday, in fact I let life get in the way so much that I am lucky if I read it once a week, (you can yell at me later for that), but I think we are all guilty of it to some degree. There are times when we all get a little too comfortable and complacent with our relationship with God, and we take it for granted. We think that He is always going to be there, and He is, don’t get me wrong, but do we have the same outlook on things when He is not at the forefront of our lives. Do you not find life a little harder when your relationship is not as strong as it should be? I know I notice it allot.

I hope you have enjoyed reading this as much as I have enjoyed writing it and have taken something of value from it.

Start to build on that relationship with God, take baby steps. Maybe it is just one verse a night, or maybe a chapter but I strongly encourage you to read His word, it His story for you.

Forgive, forget, and let God's will reign in your life!

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