Devotionals on relationships and marriage

Devotionals on relationships and marriage

Posted on April 26, 2009 Updated on April 25, 2009

Genesis 16:6-9

            I challenge you as a woman to resist the temptation to live in a vacuum. If your broken past has left you suspicious of the male gender as a whole, remember that wholeness will enable you to love the imperfect. To expect to find an ideal man-one who can be trusted not to disappoint—is neither true nor realistic.

 Nor is it true that if you demand such a man, that you yourself could live up to those standards. It is a trick the enemy uses to stop you from enjoying life. It is a lofty expectation that is fictitious and nonexistent. People do fail. Men fail. Women fail. Children fail. But thanks be to God, He does not fail!

            His unfailing love, when graciously bestowed, will enable you to love the imperfect. He loves you in spite of what He knows about you. What a healing! What a lesson He teaches when He loves in spite of your failures and misalignments.

The real challenge is to receive His love and learn to become secure enough to emulate that love in your relationships. Without that, you will have tremendous standards but absolutely no companionship. The walls that you build to protect yourself will actually imprison you, and time will escape like sand tricking through an hourglass.

            God enables you to experience a level of faith that makes you a joy to be with. He heals you until you have no need to live in a vacuum. He brings you to the point where you can be free from broken beginnings. If your beginnings were less than what you hoped, God heals. Even if you had no father image you grew up with was distorted or perverted, Christ makes it possible to redefine what it means to have a father.

He can assist you in your search to understand the masculine heart, to celebrate the unique differences that can enrich your life and your relationships.

            If you have spent all your life promiscuity, have suffered from low self-esteem, or are so starved for male attention that you will accept it by the hour, the night, or the weekend, you need to know that a real relationship with God will heal the void.

 Then, when you are ready to enter into a relationship with a man, it will be for the right reason and because of that insatiable thirsting for affirmation that causes your relationships to be destroyed. After all, don’t you want to be best you can be for him?

Source: T.D.Jakes