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'Cultivate your own relationship with God ...' Romans 14:22
Relationships aren't the safest of hobbies. Think about it; your best mate's mascara streaming down her face in the girl's toilets, and why? All because that weasel of a boyfriend of hers has stamped over her heart.
Or what about Mums and Dads who use words like a fighter uses fists jabbing at each other, looking for that killer uppercut.
Or maybe you yourself have done your fair share of bruising hearts. Yes, best to remain a little nervous when it comes to interacting with others. Perhaps we carry our doubts and questions with us when it comes to this God stuff too. After all, God asks us to be in a relationship with Him and others.
In Matthew 22:34-40 Jesus is asked what is the greatest commandment. He doesn't say 'watch out on the homicides', or 'cut down on the blasphemy'; he sums up the Christian faith with: '"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and love your neighbour as yourself"'. Clearly, Jesus is bigger on relationships than He is on rules.
Maybe, it's time for some of us to stop listing reasons why God wouldn't accept us; or stop trying to follow a set of rules for God's approval; or stop shying behind theologies and clever thinking about God; and start opening up our heart before God. Yes, today, place your heart into the hands of God: cultivate a relationship.
written by Bob Gass
'Cultivate your own relationship with God ...' Romans 14:22
Relationships aren't the safest of hobbies. Think about it; your best mate's mascara streaming down her face in the girl's toilets, and why? All because that weasel of a boyfriend of hers has stamped over her heart.
Or what about Mums and Dads who use words like a fighter uses fists jabbing at each other, looking for that killer uppercut.
Or maybe you yourself have done your fair share of bruising hearts. Yes, best to remain a little nervous when it comes to interacting with others. Perhaps we carry our doubts and questions with us when it comes to this God stuff too. After all, God asks us to be in a relationship with Him and others.
In Matthew 22:34-40 Jesus is asked what is the greatest commandment. He doesn't say 'watch out on the homicides', or 'cut down on the blasphemy'; he sums up the Christian faith with: '"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and love your neighbour as yourself"'. Clearly, Jesus is bigger on relationships than He is on rules.
Maybe, it's time for some of us to stop listing reasons why God wouldn't accept us; or stop trying to follow a set of rules for God's approval; or stop shying behind theologies and clever thinking about God; and start opening up our heart before God. Yes, today, place your heart into the hands of God: cultivate a relationship.
written by Bob Gass
