The Bible commands us to live in good relationships with one another.  This commandment is really the only commandment of the New Covenant because good relationships require us to walk in love. When we walk in love, God is able to have access to our lives. Our love walk affects every area of life.  Our spiritual condition is measured by our ability to maintain our love walk.  Learning to live in good relationships is a requirement for spiritual growth and for God’s power to work through us.  An individual who continually disregards the love walk and lives in poor relationships hinders God from manifesting blessing in his life and literally opens his life to destruction.

 God demonstrated our need to be in good relationships when He observed that the situation of being alone was not good. (Gen. 2:18)  This took place before the fall of man in the Garden of Eden.  When God made Adam a helper, He demonstrated that we need each other.  As God created Eve from Adam’s side, certain spiritual and emotional traits became part of Eve.  As Adam awoke, he realized part of him was missing but he found completion through his relationship with Eve.  Gen. 2:23 relates Adam’s reaction, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.” We fulfill God’s created order when recognize the need to live in good relationships. We can only do that through learning to walk in love. God’s created order brings blessing and peace to our lives.  When we break that order, as Adam did, then chaos and destruction result. How you live in relationships is very important to your future.  Blessing or cursing is determined by your ability to live in good relationships. I would like to suggest that now is a good time to assess your relationships especially your part in them.

 Why would God do this?  I think there are several reasons why God would ask His children to maintain good relationships.  Matthew 7:11 tells us that if we being evil know how to give good gifts to our children, how much more will your heavenly Father give good gifts to His children.  He is not evil in any way. The first reason for us to maintain good relationships is that He does.  Good relationships give us the capacity to understand the Father because they reveal our Father’s heart.  That leads us to another reason for good relationships:  they reveal the Father to others.  Jesus revealed the character of the Father through his relationships with people. He not only preached about the loving Father but He demonstrated a loving Father’s heart. Jesus said if you have seen Me you have seen the Father. (John 14:9)  Contributing influences to our perspective of God come from the impact of relationships.  A place a parent holds is the place God will eventually hold in the eyes of their children.  One of Satan’s master deceptions is relational dysfunction.  Turning relationships from being a refuge of peace and security to tyranny and destruction makes that relationship no longer speak for the church.

 One of the ways we experience greatness in our lives comes from the power that flows through our unity with those around us.  The power inherent in a unified relationship is proportionate to the degree of unity in that relationship.  John 17:21 says that we will be one through relationships.  Unity increases the potential for accomplishment.  Psalm 133 tells that God commands the blessing in the midst of unity.  Not valuing our relationships and allowing them to deteriorate without striving for their success will diminish spiritual power in our lives. Therefore, take inventory of your relationships and then work to make them grow and become successful.
 
 

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