Relationship

Relationship is vital in our lives, and God created us to have relationship... with Him! I have learned over the years that if our relationships with man are to succeed our relationship with God must not only come first but also be in check. When I say in check I mean, we have to be actually be having a relationship with God. Pursuing Him, by spending time, reading the Word and praying! Before we complain about our earthly relationships we should turn the table and look at our own relationship with God. We need to ask God how am I doing Lord, is there anything in me that needs to be changed? This is not easy!! Because once you ask this God will reveal it to you, and it will be difficult for you. Change is never easy especially when it is change within yourself that needs work. I realized as I was complaining about a relationship about not spending time, or talking to that person I turned it back on myself. This was difficult, as I have been busy I haven't been spending time with God like I used to, and praying or reading the Word like I had been. God revealed to me that I need to seek Him daily, and have a real relationship with Him! Once my relationship with God is in alignment, the rest just comes natural and almost easy! Here is the powerful point of it, God wants to change us! That is why He died for us!! I want to be desperately in love with God! This is my prayer from A.W. Tozer; in The Pursuit of God;

   "O Go, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it had both satisfied me and made me thirsty for more. I am painfully conscious of my need for further grace. I am ashamed of my lack of desire. O God, the Triune God, I want to want Thee; I long to be filled with longing; I thirst to be made more thirsty still. Show me Thy glory, I pray Thee, so that I may know Thee indeed. Begin in mercy a new work of love within me. Say to my soul, "Rise up my love, my fair one, and come away." Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wondered so long."

I challenge you today to take a look at yourself and ask the Lord what is it that needs to be change in you? And ask Him to help you with it!