The relationship between You and Jesus doesn't matter!!! Sorry.... What?!
That was my initial reaction to that line in a recent sermon I heard. I was starting to think whether my minister had lost it.... he hadn't ... as usual, he had a very valid point, I just needed keep on listening.
He went on to talk about with Christianity you shouldn't be worrying about your feelings and how 'close' to God you are feeling at every moment of every day. As we are humans, and quite weak beings at that, our emotions get the better of us far more than they should, so you can feel really on fire for God one day and feel like you are going to tell the whole world about Jesus and how he died on the cross. Then the next day you're feeling tired or let down by God for not doing some selfish thing you wanted him to do etc.
What the minister then went onto say was that the only relationship that really counts is the relationship between God the Father and Jesus (The Son) as it is only through that relationship that we can call ourselves Christians. As I am an incredible sinner (and I am becoming more aware of it the further into my walk with Jesus I go), I deserve nothing but punishment from God the Father. But through what Jesus did on the cross and saving me from my punishment, he fully became all my faults on that cross and God punished his own son for me.
That is the only relationship that matters the one between the Father and the Son as that is what makes me a Christian, and I just need to constantly remind myself of that truth, that covenant. That is what Christianity is based on.
David
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