God…devises means so that he who is banished may not be an utter outcast from Him. – 2 Samual 14:14, Amplified Bible My mother’s relationship with her mother was extremely adversarial. For most of the last thirty years of my grandmother’s life, she lived with my mother, but like oil and water, the two ladies… Continue reading Do your part to mend the broken relationship.
Category: Relating to Others
God would like to be your Friend. Will you be His?
…because he loved him as his own soul. – 1 Samuel 18:3(b), KJV What does friendship mean to you? For your dearest friend, what would you sacrifice? One of the sweetest, purest examples of friendship in the Bible is the friendship shared between Jonathan and David. As 1 Samuel 18:1 (KJV) describes it, “the soul… Continue reading God would like to be your Friend. Will you be His?
You’d better count the cost before you do that.
But Jesus said to the woman, Your faith has saved you; go (enter) into peace [in freedom from all the distresses that are experienced as the result of sin]. – Luke 7:50, Amplified Bible I remember learning on the first day of Economics 101 class in college the following truth of life: there’s no such… Continue reading You’d better count the cost before you do that.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
And this is eternal life… – John 17:3, Amplified Bible In a recent survey, two thousand employers were asked for what reasons they fired employees. Two-thirds of those surveyed responded that a major reason they let employees go is because the employees could not get along with others. When people don’t get along, it is… Continue reading Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Quit keeping all of the toys to yourself. It’s time to share.
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. – John 13:35, KJV A friend once told me about a workplace poster that made him laugh out loud. The poster had a picture of the Peanuts character Snoopy on it, and Snoopy was wearing a navy… Continue reading Quit keeping all of the toys to yourself. It’s time to share.
Hey, why not try God’s plan for marriage? I promise you, it’ll work better than yours.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; – Ephesians 5:22, 25, KJV It takes two to tango. If the tango is to be a work of art rather than a total wreck, both partners must… Continue reading Hey, why not try God’s plan for marriage? I promise you, it’ll work better than yours.
Be ready to lend a helping hand – to your enemy.
If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying [helpless] under his load, you shall refrain from leaving the man to cope with it alone; you shall help him to release the animal.… Continue reading Be ready to lend a helping hand – to your enemy.
When the world is crumbling around you, make sure your house is built upon a firm foundation: God.
Whosoever cometh to me…is like a man which built an house…and laid the foundation on a rock…- Luke 6:47-48, KJV We all want to be respected. Perhaps one of the reasons why we do is because the respect of others is not easy to come by. You have to earn respect, and when you have… Continue reading When the world is crumbling around you, make sure your house is built upon a firm foundation: God.
Don’t be a loner.
But Moses’ hands were heavy and grew weary. So [the other men] took a stone and put it under him and he sat on it. Then Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side and one on the other side; so his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.… Continue reading Don’t be a loner.
Don’t take matters into your own hands. Wait for God’s timing.
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing. – Genesis 12:2, KJV In Genesis 12:2-4, God promised Abraham to make a nation of him. Eleven years later and tired of waiting on God, Sarah, unable to bear children,… Continue reading Don’t take matters into your own hands. Wait for God’s timing.