Christ-Centered Relationships

"A woman's heart should be so lost in God that a man needs to seek Him in order to find her"

This is one of my favorite quotes ever.  I truly believe this with all my heart.  I believe that in order for a relationship to work to the full potential that God intended for it to, it HAS to be a Christ-centered relationship.  I am not saying that two non-christians would not last in a relationship, but I do not believe that they are expirencing the true relationship that God intended for them.

It is not unusual for a complete stranger to come to me and start telling me all their problems.  I always say that I have something written across my forhead that says, "come talk to me and tell me your problems."  It does not matter where I am, I always find a way to be a counselor for someone.  Just this past week, I ran into two very lovely ladies who admitted to being in an abusive relationship.  One of the ladies was a little younger than me.  I went to highschool with her, but we were never friends.  I now wish that I could have reached out to her in highschool and told her about God's love and maybe she would not be in this terrible relationship.  The other lady was an older lady who was married.  She has been made for over 20 years and truly believes that this is how a relationship is supposed to be.

To hear both of these ladies tell me about their relationships was so difficult for me to hear.  I was almost at the point where I wanted to shake them and say, "WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU THINKING!?  Don't you know you are worth so much more than that?  The quote above stands so true in order for you to have a healthy, God-centered, loving relationship that God intends for us to have.  Ephesians 5:25 says, "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her."  That is a HUGE responsibility for the man, but that is what God calls men to do in the relationship.  I know that I will not settle for anything less than that.  I just pray that I can reach out to all the ladies out there who do not know how much they deserve only the best.  God has showed us an example of what a relationship should look like by comparing His love to the church that a man should have towards his wife.  We just need to be patient and wait on His timing to show us the perfect person God intends for us to be with.

Ladies, PLEASE seek God first before seeking any man.  God knows what he is doing.  He has the PERFECT man out there if you just seek Him first.