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RELATIONSHIP IS EVERYTHING!

by linzy bruno  
10/20/2022 / Christian Living


 

Jesus rebuked the Pharisees for their religion in Matthew 23:1-12. God doesn’t want us to have a religion; He wants a relationship.

God cares about the relationship He has with His children through faith in Christ and that relationship is where Christians find the foundation of their faith. In relationships there is spiritual and emotional growth. With legality, however, it’s all about scoring points and following regulations; love has nothing to do with it, and hence, there is no growth. (And we know God wants us to grow, as we read in Galatians 5:22-25.)

 

 But, on the contrary, love has everything to do with relationships (and growth):

 

Jeremiah 29:11

Zephaniah 3:17

Psalm 86:15

Romans 5:8

John 1:10-13 & 3:6

John 6:40 & John 6:55-59

John 10:27, 14:6 & 14:23

John 15:5 & 15:13

John 15:51

Acts 3:19

Hebrews 11:6

James 4:6-10

Galatians 2:20

1John 1:9  & 1John 3:1

1Peter 5:6-7 & 5:18-29

Revelation 3:20

 

Moreover, a lasting relationship with God isn’t just a perk to being a Christian, but the proper order of things according to Christ and necessary for salvation, otherwise entrance into Heaven would be much like earning an A+ grade on a school report card. And we know that our salvation can never be found through any sort of merit or earning on our part:

 

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.” (Ephesians 2:8-9)

 

When the Lord instructs believers of His Word to believe in Christ Jesus, that doesn’t just mean acknowledging that He is real, even the devil knows that, that is not faith. Faith is believing in Him; in His Power and His Kingship, much more than just head knowledge.

 

The Apostle Paul has also illustrated the need for relationship over the mere following of the law through many Scriptures, like Romans 3:21, 6:15-19 & 10:4.

 

And Jesus has also put it succinctly in Matthew 5:17-18. The New Testament believer follows the laws of Christ that God puts on our hearts through our conscience (Romans 2:14-15), but we also need to learn more about the doctrines of Christ through the reading of the Word. This list is also outlined in Hebrews 6:1-3 and Jesus’ concluding Sermon known as “The Beatitudes” in Matthew 5:21-28.

 

The Scriptural evidence of the vital importance of relationship can also be seen through Jesus’ parable in Matthew 25. The Words of our Lord express this noteworthy precept; for God, relationship is everything. Those who do not know HIM, and even more noteworthy, those whom He does not know are in grave danger:

 

“Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’  “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.” (Matthew 25:11-13)

 

Jesus did say that those who are not for Him are against Him in Matthew 12:30 & Luke 11:23. That’s because with God there is no middle road; whatever is of God is good and whatever is not of God is evil.

 

The following verses reflect the Longsuffering Mercy of our God. He works with us through our difficulties and understands our shortcomings and the reason why we do what we do and the fact that we are grieved by that wrong-doing and are actively working with His Spirit to make those changes within us that He Desires for us as His sons and daughters and is what matters most to Him.

 

AND isn’t it wonderful to know that He cares about the why behind what we do and takes into account the motives behind our actions and the reasons why we do what we do and even changes us in our error, if we cooperate with Him?

 

Jeremiah 17:10, 1Samuel 16:7, Proverbs 4:23 & Psalm 51:10

 

And through the Apostle Paul it is clear that no one is above all human propensity for weakness:

 

For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.” (Romans 7:19-20)

 

And we all need to lean on God if we are to do anything worth doing at all, as Jesus has informed us in John 15:1-4…..

 

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you.  Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.”

 

And clearly, it would not be possible to obey these instructions from our Lord if it were not for the relationship God provides through Christ. The mere following of rules could never accomplish this monumental godly task!

 

Therefore, knowing all these things to be true, relationship with God through Christ should be treated as the highest priority of our lives……now and forever….

and live with confidence of our eternal salvation. 

 

 

 

NKJV

 

 

 



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Linzy has been writing for many years; seriously since her 3 kids were still young and inspirational. She has taken 2 courses in Bible studies and completed "Four Soils" Bible study course in a 26-month period; earning her certification in Bible Counselling.

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