Tag: Meant for Relationship

Is God Your Crisis Manager?

On By vickleaIn Scripture3 Comments

We were called to have a relationship with our Heavenly Father, but some of us treat Him as though He is our personal and sometimes effective crisis manager. What is a crisis manager anyway? That’s the person within a business structure who prepares for and makes “quick and informed decisions” in order to mitigate damages during an unforeseen crisis. (Wikipedia) This person is paid for his skills in managing crises in order to keep the unexpected event from affecting the business in a damaging way. In treating God like a crisis manager, I think many wait until the unexpected thing happens in their lives and then expect God to stop whatever He is currently doing and immediately address their issue in a way that would have a satisfactory outcome for them. In other words, they want to tell God what to do and when to do it in order to fulfill their expectations of what and who God is supposed to be in their lives.

I have said it before and I will say it again. God is NOT a genie in a box at our beck and call for when we decide we need Him. He is our Heavenly Father who desires an everyday, in every way, relationship with Him. Having a good day? Tell Him and praise Him. Having a so-so day? Tell Him, talk to Him about what is making it not so great and praise Him. Having a bad day? Tell Him you need His help making it through the day and praise Him. God helps in crises, but His primary focus is being with us all the time, whether we are calling on Him constantly or not. If the only time I spoke to my husband was when there is something that I want him to fix right away, we would not have a relationship but a business contract or something similar. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to enter a business contract with God. I am in a covenant relationship with Him instead and that is so much better. We limit God when we try to make Him our crisis manager. We only want Him to come around when bad things are happening and we want His intervention. God is omnipresent, always there. He is omniscient, all knowing, and He is always loving and faithful. He wants what is best for us whether we agree with Him about what is best or not.

I appeal to you all that you form an ongoing relationship with God, one in which He is your “all in all” and that includes your crisis manager because you have established a relationship with Him. So, is God your crisis manager? I hope so, but He is so much more if you will allow Him to be your Father who created you and loves you more than you can ever understand.

Dear God-A Raw Prayer

Meant for Relationships

On By vickleaIn Family and Friends, Scripture1 Comment

From the very beginning, God knew that mankind needed companionship, relationship.

Thus, God established marriage. One man and one woman for life, the way God meant for it to be.

But marriage is not the only relationship we have. We also have a relationship with our Heavenly Father, with an open invitation to worship and pray and come into His presence. And we have friends, those God has placed in our lives for us to ask for help or for us to give them help. We are generally doing one or the other with our friends. We can be honest with them and admit that we are not sufficient to do all the things alone. So, God gave us friends to stand alongside us and hold us up when we are falling.

We were not meant to go through life lonely and trying to do a solo act all the time. There are many times when we just need to talk to someone and there are other times when we need assistance with something. I have a good friend from church who contacts me several times a week just to make sure that Harry and I are okay. She offers to bring us food when we are sick and when we had to move to the auxiliary room at church because of the noise of the bass, she moved with us. She told us that church is for fellowship and she will be our fellowship. Do you have someone that you can call on at any time and they will respond? That is a true friend and that is what Bonnie is.

One of the ways we show love is to just be available. God is always available to us, ready to hear our cry for help and to comfort, heal and answer. He showed us the example of a loving relationship so that we can show the world what marital love and what friendship look like. In a world where people are climbing over each other to get to the top, let’s be the ones to be noticed for helping, not hindering. Let’s be the ones to comfort, not compete. Let’s be the ones to give, not always take. The world may never see what we are doing or know why, but God sees and knows. He is our real BFF (best friend forever).