God bless!
Relationships are tough, sometimes they seem virtually impossible to deal with.
Over time the strength of any relationship seems to get weak and our resolve
towards our partner seems to diminish but how do we strengthen it? I think I
can sum it up in one word: Vulnerability. How vulnerable are we willing to be
for love? The thing is that Love doesn't have a backup plan, it doesn't have a
secret bank account, it doesn't have a secret Facebook account, it doesn't have
any means of parachuting out of the relationship. Isn't it sad how so many of us
go into something permanent with the idea of "How do I get out of it, just in
case..". Why do it? Why do we seek a halfway relationship? Why do we seek a
relationship on our terms? Relationships (trust me I'm no expert but I can
share some bumps and bruises I have learned from) must be an all or nothing
thing or they simply won't work. How do I know? As a counselor over time I have
seen many fall apart, not because God decided there time together was up but
rather because we as humans decided to finally execute our ability to have
"Free Will". Why does our free will cause us to damage or destroy something
eternal? How can we feel ok with saying goodbye to something so powerful and
awesome? Of course don't get me wrong I'm not saying stay in an abusive
relationship but I am saying before your relationship gets abusive we must tend
to it. Where did the love go? We don't just stop loving out of nowhere,
something must trigger a change in our will to make things work. Why am I going
on about this? Yes I'm interested in our current marital relationships but even
greater perhaps is my interest in getting the church back to a vulnerable
state before God. To love God once again the way we did when we cared about
nothing else but to please Him.
Why? Because this is the avenue to true breakthrough, as you
and I read this I'm 100% sure we all need breakthrough in some area of our
life, if this is the case then we need to return to the state of giving Him our
heart. He won't hurt us, He won't leave us, He won't forget us. How do I know?
I guess because He should have left me a long time ago but He refuses to give
up on me so now I refuse to give up on Him!
Thanking God for His love..
Pastor Joell A. Perez
