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Psalm 146
Why doesn’t God just make your relationships
better overnight? We often think that if God really cared for us, he would make
our relationships easier. In reality, a difficult relationship is a mark of his
love and care.
We would prefer that God would just change
the relationship, but he won’t be content until the relationship changes us
too. This is how God created relationships to function.
What happens in the messiness of
relationships is that our hearts are revealed, our weaknesses are exposed, and
we start coming to the end of ourselves. Only when this happens do we reach out
for the help God alone can provide. Weak and needy people finding their hope in
Christ’s grace are what mark a mature relationship.
The most dangerous aspect of your
relationships is not your weakness, but your delusions of strength.
Self-reliance is almost always a component of a bad relationship.
While we would like to avoid the mess and
enjoy deep and intimate community, God says that it is in the very process of
working through the mess that intimacy is found.
On January 16 Timothy S. Lane and Paul David Tripp writes in Heart of the Matter (p 16).
On January 16 Timothy S. Lane and Paul David Tripp writes in Heart of the Matter (p 16).
With every relationship, I find more truth of who I am and who God is. If not taken in small steps, too much truth would drive me to insanity. Therefore, these bits and portions from one moment to the next are palatable. I am amazed at the fact that he not only reaches to even me but loves enough in the process to measure my doses ever so carefully...patiently.
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