When Relationships Go Somewhere
People typically fall into relationships.
On the playground a small boy will ask another small boy to play football with him, resulting in a life-long friendship.
The new person at the office is grateful for any kind of kindness he or she receives, happy to feel like he or she can find friends there.
We're happy to have friends, but sometimes the relationships we build are little more than people we can go to in order to feel valued. This is very normal and there really isn't anything wrong with this. We all need to be in relationship with other people.
But there's something to those rare relationships that we often happen upon - the ones where both parties feel pushed and challenged because of it. They're the relationships that are going somewhere.
People don't fall into these types of relationships. These relationships are deliberate and purposeful. Each party in these relationships has a vested interest in contributing to it.
To grow in maturity, to discover and refine each others purpose, to follow Jesus more fully - when these are the goals of a relationship, they really can go somewhere.
On the playground a small boy will ask another small boy to play football with him, resulting in a life-long friendship.
The new person at the office is grateful for any kind of kindness he or she receives, happy to feel like he or she can find friends there.
We're happy to have friends, but sometimes the relationships we build are little more than people we can go to in order to feel valued. This is very normal and there really isn't anything wrong with this. We all need to be in relationship with other people.
But there's something to those rare relationships that we often happen upon - the ones where both parties feel pushed and challenged because of it. They're the relationships that are going somewhere.
People don't fall into these types of relationships. These relationships are deliberate and purposeful. Each party in these relationships has a vested interest in contributing to it.
To grow in maturity, to discover and refine each others purpose, to follow Jesus more fully - when these are the goals of a relationship, they really can go somewhere.
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