March 16th, 2021: We Are Created for Relationships

 The Relational God | The Chapel

People have started talking about traveling as the vaccination plans have begun to gain momentum in Canada and the USA. My brothers and sisters have already started planning for a family reunion. It is a much-needed one because many of us could come to my father's funeral in Montreal last November. I have friends who have talked about going back to Vietnam to see friends and family.


Relationships are essential in human life, and traveling is how we maintain and grow our relationships with others. Being shut out and cut off from families and friends is not that normal for us. Some people feel as if they are losing the needed equilibrium in their lives. We are relational because God created us in His image, a relational image.


Relationships are our guidelines for meaningful lives. Good relationships tend to challenge us and shape us. For some people, good relationships make them better. They learn to take responsibility and leadership when they grew up in healthy relationships. Others might have the benefits of being mentored by caring folks later in their lives. Most leaders I know have no problems telling me about significant people who have influenced them relationally.


Relationships help us to live out what God has in mind at the beginning of time. We are not created to be alone. We are designed to be in a community, and the basic structure of that community is our family. Those, who advocate otherwise, are lying both to others and themselves. Of course, not everyone has that privilege nowadays. That does not mean that we have to deny or destroy it. We just have to fight for it harder.


Jeremiah 29: 11

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope."


Revelation 3: 20

"Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me."

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