Marriage, friendship, parenting and living at peace with others.
When you cry again, He will save you again,… This is not the first time you are suffering in relationships…You made a poor financial decision and you cried then God saved you…Your laziness or bad attitude or too much talking has put you in trouble before. You suffered and cried to God for help. Now you are in trouble again. It is okay to cry again!
God will be with you in marriage but behave well in that marriage. God will be with you in the journey but drive safely. God will be with you at work but behave responsibly. God will be with you but keep safe from being conned. God will be with you, but you must play your human part. Do not be afraid, victory is guaranteed but you have to fight!
If your life is threatened in a relationship, get out of that relationship and move to safety, sometimes extreme action is the best action. If your child is getting into bad and potentially addictive habits in this school, do not delay, get the child out of that school to even an inferior school but save the child from addiction. Sometimes extreme action is the best action.
There is a relationship breaking somewhere so that a partner is available for you in the next few weeks. There is a disagreement in a secret relationship that you know nothing about but will stabilize your marriage. There is someone mistreating a customer somewhere who will be your best business deal out of that stress. Somewhere unknown to us, God has landed to save us!
Fornication, adultery, and all illicit sex begin as conversations. If you can talk about it, you are halfway into the sexual act. The best way, the safest way is to keep off that conversation. Avoid that conversation! That fight that caused injury began as a conversation. Some conversations tempt us to speak negatively about others then they are informed of what we said, what follows is heartache and broken relationships.
Love is important and sensible where there is friendship. “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.” – Friedrich Nietzsche. Many single people suddenly realize it is time to marry or get married. Then they venture to go and search for the perfect partner, the right man or woman. Unfortunately for them, they find this person and end up in marriage. Several weeks or months later, they discover the person is right and they have chosen to be in love, but they are not friends!
What do you have in common in that social media group? What do you have in common with your pack of friends? What do you have in common with your daily companions? What do you have in common with your lover? Truth is the best thing to have in common. Is this what we have in common?
Breaking up is painful. Being left by someone or people is as good as being rejected in public. Nobody likes to break up. When people who were once identified as being together, end up parting ways, whatever the reasons, it is sad!
What could be the litmus test of faith? What could be the litmus test of our relationship with God? Our text today expounds on this and emphasizes it in the clearest ways possible. How we treat others will be a subject of final judgment. It is the litmus test of our spiritual life.