"The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. " John 10:10(NKJV)
Jesus Christ said in John 10:10 that he came to the earth to make a more than abundant life available to us. This more than abundant life is achieved by accepting him as the Lord of our individual lives and accepting his love into our hearts. The love of God that is demonstrated to us by Christ is the definition of life! Our union with God through Jesus Christ is the life that was anticipated for generations, and it was always God’s plan to make it happen. We are on this earth to know God through Christ and to have a relationship with Heavenly Father. When we become unhinged from God’s purpose through our mindsets, attitudes, and personal agendas, life will reveal it. One of the first places that life loosens its cooperation with us is in our relationship with the significant person in our lives.
Most people think that marriage and relationships exist merely for their enjoyment. God’s Word teaches us that He established relationships to teach us about our union with Him through His Son, Jesus Christ. Ephesians 5:31-33(NLT) says, “As the Scriptures say, “A man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.” 32 This is a great mystery, but it is an illustration of the way Christ and the church are one. 33 So again I say, each man must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.” This is God’s standard, and therefore, you and I can have confidence that this is the best that can be achieved.
Relationships are very important to God. He wants us to love Him and to love one another by modeling the example that Jesus Christ left for us. Our blessed Savior teaches us in John 14:6(NLT), “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.” Jesus Christ is God’s blueprint for humanity. Everything that God created us to be is contained in the person of Jesus Christ, and we are commanded by God to follow his example. This truth should be the foundation of all our relationships, because without it, many relationships fall apart very quickly.
Often, partners don’t see their purpose in one another’s lives through the light of Christ. They don’t appreciate God’s purpose for them being in each other’s lives. Nothing happens randomly in the life of a believer. Everyone we meet can teach us something about our relationship with God that we need to learn. We are not to make other human beings our everything, only God is worthy of this position. Our responsibility is to honor God through our relationships and to make sure that Jesus Christ is the head of them.
Romans 8:17(NLT) tells us, “And since we are his children, we are his heirs. In fact, together with Christ we are heirs of God's glory.” Because of Christ, God has given us an inheritance, and as the good people that He’s called us to be, we don’t hoard it all for ourselves. Like Christ, we share. We should want to see others receive what God has so freely given to us. This should especially be the case when it comes to the most significant person in our lives.
It is so important that we invite Heavenly Father into our significant relationships. We don’t have any glue of our own. His love is the glue that binds relationships together. Love is more than those ooey gooey feelings and fluttering butterflies in our tummies. Those are really nice, but they don’t last long. We must understand that it takes much more, because love is a commitment. Through God’s love, lives can be forever changed, and as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, we must always keep this in our hearts and minds. Families can be produced, established, healed, protected, strengthened, sanctified, unified, and ordained for God’s purpose by one individual’s commitment to Him. It is the greatest privilege in all of life to keep God’s purpose at the forefront of our unions and remain committed to leave a legacy of His love for generations to come. ■
Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.
“Appreciating the Significant Person in Your Life”, written by Fran Mack for Springfield Fellowship, Inc. ©2021. All rights reserved. All done to the glory of God through Jesus Christ, our Lord!
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