Relationship

It is up to each of us to work out and walk in our own relationship with God through His Son Christ Jesus, and to take ownership (stewardship) of that relationship with Him.  

Think about a relationship you have been in. Did you take ownership of it, nurture it and feed it with love, or did you ignore it and allow it to die away? It takes a constant source of love with trust and confidence for the relationship to grow and mature. This relationship that you are thinking about, were you both involved in the nurturing of it, or was (is) it one sided? How can there be trust and confidence in the relationship let alone love if both people are not willing to reason together. Sometimes we have to die to self, and other times it is the other person that needs to for the relationship to continue and grow in a healthy way. Either way, if you don’t work together, if the house is divided, the relationship will fail and fall away.  

Our Lord took on the ownership (stewardship) of His relationship with the Father and was willing to die to self for us; and in doing so He made peace with God and provided us a way of our own relationship with God our Father. He was willing to work on the relationship with our Heavenly Father and was able to build a bond of trust and confidence with Him. Are you willing to do the same; are you willing to die to self so that you can live together with Him today and for eternity?  

One has to continue steadfastly in the faith in order for one’s relationship with our heavenly Father to build trust, not only on our end, but on our Father’s end as well. He who is faithful in the least will be faithful in much. If we can be faithful in the least of what He asks of us then He knows (trusts) that we will be faithful in much; in other words in the deeper things of the Spirit that He reveals unto us and asks of us. He trusts that we will not use those things for gain in this life, but to use that which He reveals unto us to the benefit of others; to build up the body of Christ; to be instant in season and out of season, ready and willing to go about His work and business that He asks of us.  

As we continue to develop trust we grow in confidence, and we mature in our relationship with God. And we begin to realize that Christ is our confidence; He is the bond that keeps our relationship with God in place. You realize that without Him you can do nothing; and without Him there is no security or boldness in that you know the relationship with our Father is secure and that you have the freedom to reason together with Him because you continue to do those things that please Him.  

John 8:29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him. (KJV)  

Jesus Christ developed trust and confidence in His relationship with the Father as you can plainly see in the above verse. He knew without doubt. This is the same place that we should be striving for in our relationship with our Father as well. Are you willing to put in the effort and continue steadfastly in this Spiritual relationship that has begun to see it to the end?  

Dearly loved, I encourage you to put in the effort, fight the good fight of faith so that when the time comes for you to stand before God our Father He is able to speak these loving words ‘well done my good and faithful servant, come and abide with me forever’. God bless and have a prosperous day in Christ Jesus our Lord.