Every day on Facebook I see that someone's relationship status is changing from "single" to "in a relationship" and within a months time it goes back to "single". The first week of that relationship, you see statuses about how lucky they are and how much they love that person. The second week they have made them their profile picture and are posting on their significant others page about how much they miss them and can't wait to spend the weekend together. However during the third week, the relationship the relationship has slowed down, the profile picture is of themselves, no more posts about their boyfriend/girlfriend, etc. The next week, you see the dreaded "____ went from being "in a relationship" to "single" or "it's complicated".
That's the same type of relationship that some of us have with God. When we first come to Christ, we want to tell everyone! We want to show everyone our Bible, talk about how great He is and go to church every time there is an event going on. People see that we have changed for the best. After a few months, we start missing random Sundays to go out of town or to a friends birthday party, etc. We stop talking about what God is doing for us and begin to fall back into our old ways. Other things begin to take priority over God. It's only a matter of time before we only go to church on Christmas, Easter, Father's Day and Mother's Day.
The fact of the matter is that people tend to get into a Facebook relationship with God. When you're in that type of relationship, things tend to get away from you. It may feel like God isn't there for you or He's not providing for you but the truth is that you put Him in the trunk of your car while you were drinking and driving playing Lil' Wayne at 3 AM Sunday morning and didn't get out of bed for church. Do you honestly think God wants to do great things for you while your slapping Him in the face? The golden rule says "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.": did you give him praise in advance so that you may possibly receive that promotion at work? Or did you EXPECT that promotion and were going to give praise afterwards? We have to put God first in every single thing we do and not get caught up in the unimportant things in life. Money is going to come and go but our salvation is here for a lifetime.
Sometimes we even tend to put our relationship with our boyfriend/girlfriend over our relationship with God. We then wonder why it's so hard to get over that person because we put everything we had into that relationship. We spent so much time trying to please that person that we forgot what was pleasing to God. Like money, boyfriends and girlfriends are also going to come and go so we have to remember not to get caught up in them. A person needs to establish a strong relationship with God before they can establish a relationship with someone else. After that relationship is established with Him, He'll provide you with the right person. Don't rush to be in a relationship, find yourself first.
Be blessed.
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