I just realized it tonight, all this time its been about relationships. God created us for relationship with himself. Because God IS love he created us to have a target for his very being to be poured out upon. God created us for relationship with others. Love does not exist as a feeling, it is something that must be acted out, if we have no relationships with others we have no way to love. We can not love God without loving others, we show our love to him through obedience and he has commanded us to love our neighbors (Matt 22:39). When I thought God was teaching me to stand on my own two feet, to be fine on my own , to protect my heart and reject those who hurt me, he was really reaching out to me through relationships that I will never forget. He was trying to show me what this life is really about. In our day, "in my generation," I feel like there are a lot of people who are very open and will hear whatever opinion you have to throw out there. But its not until you have spent the time to form a relationship with them, and they see your actions of love that they will really listen to what you are saying. All this time I thought I'd be fine, just me and God for the rest of my life, and all this time he's been trying to show me RELATIONSHIPS, healthy, God glorifying relationships. I don't know where I'd be today if it wasn't for the college girls that intentionally formed a relationship with me as a Jr. High kid, or the camp counselor I had 5 summers in a row, or my friends who took me in on the weekends, or my youth pastor who finally showed me what a relationship with Jesus is all about. Its been the relationships all along that have pulled me through and that God has spoken to me through. My 2 best years of college were the ones spent leading small groups and being part of a ministry team, how could I have ever thought that I could be the best version of myself without relationships?
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