Gonorrhea on Valentines Day,
And you're still looking for the perfect lay...Why don't you look into Jesus, he's got the answer.
- Larry Norman
Relationships are a good thing, a gift from God. Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his complement.” - Genesis 2:18 While they are exceptions in both calling and people, we were never meant to walk the road of life alone. Relationships are special, and there is a reason that repeatedly the Holy Spirit inspired the writers of Scripture to use marriage as an analogy of what we have with God. We can be one with Him. Christ loves us and laid His life down for us the way a husband should love his bride, laying down his life for her, serving her and making her needs be what he needs.
Even in the Garden of Eden where Adam had as close to a perfect relationship with his Creator that any of us have had, was able to walk with Him and talk with Him in a manner that has never been known since the curse, God said that wasn't enough. We need one another. It is not good for us to be alone. The helpmate is God's ideal, but even other relationships with family and friends are important. We are to encourage one another to love and good works and bear one another's burdens. Not every person is going to have a romantic relationship, but that doesn't mean we are alone.
Yes, relationships are good and important. We are social creatures, and the world is a better place when we live as we rather than me. One of the most important aspects of any and every relationship, from the bonds of matrimony to the casual acquaintance, is to help one another, to encourage, and enable a better relationship with our Creator. Yes, we are supposed to be enablers. It's not a bad thing if what you're enabling is union with God. Every encounter has the opportunity to help and bless someone. But no relationship, not even marriage, was ever intended or able to take the place of what we receive through relationship with God. When we look to our partners to fill the need in our hearts and lives that only God can fill, we do them a huge disservice by demanding or expecting the impossible from them, and we set up ourselves for devastating disappointment when they fail When we seek the love of God for us in the act of sex, especially the idea of physical pleasure without those pesky bonds of love and commitment and relationship, we eventually find things even worse than when we ask our spouse to meet the needs only God can meet.
Whether it is pleasure, chemicals, or something as great and God-ordained as marriage, anything we try to use to fill the God-shaped hole in our lives will fall apart and fall short. I am blessed with the most perfect wife for me. God done me good, much better than I deserve. Leah is truly my helpmate. But she can never take the place of God in my life. She can however help me and encourage me to walk with Him. We are not meant to be alone, but Mr. Right is first and foremost always going to be Jesus. Only His love truly satisfies. Only God can free us and restore us and make us alive. Fill the God-shaped hole with God, then relationships are so much easier, because the ultimate need is filled and it's a lot easier to be what you were meant to be than it is to be what you can never be...God for someone's need.
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