Loyalty In Relationships

It is amazing when you think about it how many relationships we go through in our lifetime. Acquaintances we make through school, work, our children’s activities, church become friends and for a while are important in our lives. While we have a common thread we are loyal to these relationships. But as you think about it, those people come and go in and out of our live. Why is that? I feel it is the common thread that holds us together for a season and then fades away. Years later we may run into them again and old feelings are stirred up within and we wonder why we lost touch. If you begin to break it down it is the common thread.

What are the common threads in your relationships today? Are they lasting or only fleeting? Do we keep them as long as we feel good about them? In today’s society everything screams for us to be happy and satisfied, so when our feelings waiver so do our relationships. I don’t think that this is good – nor can it continue and have a healthy society. God wants us to be happy but we are not to base that happiness on people or circumstances around us. We are to base that happiness and fulfillment on our relationship with God Himself. He is the common thread that our relationships can be built on. I love how the relationship between Jonathan and David was built on their pact before the Lord. Their love for each other was built on their love of the Lord. They could go for long stretches of time without seeing each other but when they came together it was to help each other, to encourage each other, to set aside circumstances and family to be loyal to each other.

Ruth is another example of loyalty in her relationship with Naomi, her Mother-in-law. All Naomi’s family was gone but two daughter-in-laws and one left to stay with her family, while Ruth remained loyal to Naomi and traveled away from her family and all that was familiar to her to support and take care of her Mother-in-law. Without knowing what the outcome would be, she remained true. Isn’t it amazing that through that loyalty to her Mother-in-law, God gave her a new wealthy husband and also sent His son, the Messiah, through her lineage.

Let us be so in tune with God that we allow relationships to be born through our Heavenly Father and not of our own selfishness. God will surround you with people that love him as much as you love Him if you build your relationship strong with God, Himself.

~Debbie~