"It's all about Relationship"

Reflection:

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Why is it not good to be alone?

God designed us to bond relationally with Himself.

As author Doug Banister points out in Sacred Quest,

"All of us are on a lifelong quest to know Him more intimately. We must learn how to bond with Him if we are to become the people He has called us to be. The cost of failing to bond with God can be staggering: addiction, low self-confidence, depression, religiosity, burnout, and relational problems."

The God of the Bible is a relational God.

The three members of the Trinity--

God the Father,

God the Son,

and God the Spirit

--exist in relationship together.

Jesus describes their relationship as intensely intimate. Jesus says to the Father, in John 17:21 (KJV)

“That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me."

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As Banister points out, the creation story is an account of a relational God creating a man and a woman He could bond, revealing to us and through us the unity of the Godhead.

We find a clue about the heart of God when we read,

"And God said, let us make man in our image, alter our likeness.."

(Genesis 1:26 / KJV).

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God, who exists in relationship, creates men and women who bear this same relational likeness.

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Prayer:

Father, thank You that our relationship with You through Your Son Jesus and our neighbors, pictures the relationship You have with Him. May we all value it. Thank You Father for bringing me to Him. I pray to You, in Jesus Name. Amen.