One must have love for one another. In order to build true, biblical relationship, we must learn how to receive. While we tend to be pretty good at getting thing for ourselves, we’re not always so good at graciously receiving from someone else.
If you broke your foot and had to depend on other people for just about everything, how would you feel? A lot of us would have real trouble with that.
We would have to receive the care and generosity of others instead of taking care of ourselves and not needing anyone else. But remember, servant receive.
Once we receive, we reciprocate by being the giver so the other person can be the servant and receive. This is the basis of covenantal life- receiving and giving.
We are thousands of years away from the ancient world. So what does living in covenant relationships look like today?
You meet someone in a small group a bible study or your church service. You are both believers. This person invites you out for coffee, and you accept. At the end of that time together, you suggest having dinner together the next week. Following dinner, your friend compliments your lasagna, and you give her the recipe.
She offers to have your son over for an afternoon while you do some errands builds. You help her wallpaper her entryway. As this covenant relationship builds, you are “doing life” together.
You find it natural to share intimate matters of your heart. When your friend offers to pray with you, you receive. Giving and receiving are the foundation of an in relationship.
Jesus in our compass, and we are to follow his lead in the area of covenantal relationships with another. This in ward relationship living in love with one another – is the only identifying mark Jesus said Christians were to have:
By this all men will know you are my disciples, if you love one another. (John- 13:35).
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