Acehart:
My relationship with God should have been better. I tried to live in peace with all men, but men will squeeze your guts out with their evil -they don’t want peace, they want war. Nevertheless, I look forward to a better relationship with God and more godly wisdom to handle men.

Happy new year to you too.

Bodydiialect57:

As you have desired, l pray grace be given you for a better relationship, first with God and then men.

Bodydiialect57:
³⁵And one of them, a teacher of the Law, tried to trap him with a question.
³⁶"Teacher," he asked, "which is the greatest commandment in the Law?"
³⁷Jesus answered, " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.'
³⁸This is the greatest and the most important commandment.
³⁹The second most important commandment is like it: 'Love your neighbor as you love yourself.'
- Matthew 22:35-39

As someone rightly said, the main thing in life is to make the main thing the main thing. I will tell you relationship is the main thing, if you ask me

Bodydiialect57:
To cause the Lord Jesus Christ to trip, one of the Pharisees asked Him the greatest of God's commandments to which He summarized as relationship; first with God, then with oneself and lastly with others.

No man is an island, we all need God and one another as we journey through the new year. To enjoy a good and fulfilling life therefore, the best place to start is with the right relationship.

Bodydiialect57:
How was your relationship with God and man in the past? Good or bad? It's possible the past has been a terrible one to many due to the right relationship they had or lacked, that notwithstanding, there is always room for a fresh start.

Bodydiialect57:
No one can love God without first accepting God's gift of love, which is Jesus Christ. It is when His love is perfected in us that we can effectively love Him in return, love oneself and others as expected.

Bodydiialect57:
The main thing is to begin the year with right relationships, the first being God. He comes first. He is to be at the center, the focal point with everything else in life receiving its meaning and direction from that vital center.

Happy new year to you all.

Acehart:
My relationship with God should have been better. I tried to live in peace with all men, but men will squeeze your guts out with their evil -they don’t want peace, they want war. Nevertheless, I look forward to a better relationship with God and more godly wisdom to handle men.

Happy new year to you too.

Bodydiialect57:
The acid test of a true and right relationship with God is the true and right relationship with others.

That's the main thing!

Bodydiialect57:
As you have desired, l pray grace be given you for a better relationship, first with God and then men.

Acehart:
Amen

MuttleyLaff:
No many people know and so realise that to be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life. Praise God. Alleluia

Relationship, is exactly one of the important things, what the cross on which Yahshua Ha Mashiah aka Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour of the whole wide world died on, symbolises.

The cross, serves as a few meaningful symbols, one which is, it serves to indicate the vertical relationship with God, to start with and then next, the horizontal relationship with our neighbour, whoever our neighbour is, whatever his/her race, colour, sexuality, creed, height, size, taste et cetera is, lmso

There is quite a lot of more room for improvement, in terms of both our vertical relationship with God and especially for some of us, legalistic brethren and sisters, our horizontal relationships with peculiar other people, lmso

Also, no one can love God, accept God's gift of unconditional love and then not want to allow others to faithfully and devotionally love each other, without fear of discrimination and/or condemnation of the love they have for each other

"Indeed, your husband is your Maker
-- His name is Yahweh of Hosts
-- and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;
He is called the God of all the earth."
- Isaiah 54:5

Aye, relationship with God comes first, as He truly is the Center, the focal point with everything else in life receiving its meaning and direction from that vital Center.

When all is done and dusted, relationship, when and after the dust settles, with faith, hope and love, outlives everything and remains (i.e. 1 Corinthians 13:13)

Notice that it's from "It is not good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable companion to help him" that its observed that relationship is the mother of companionship. Marriage, is a training ground, so with, to perfect relationship skills in, lmso. It isnt easy being married, and so why, marriage isnt necessarily for everyone, lmso. As we can see from Isaiah 54:5 above, and just taking it as an example of one, there are different kinds of marriage, lmso. Civil marriage, is another example, lmso

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The IBM syndrome makes most of us not pass the acid test for testing the state of our true perception of and right relationship with peculiar others, lmso

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Bodydiialect57:
Thanks for your contributions sir.
What's this IBM syndrome?
Happy new year to you.

Bodydiialect57:
You can’t have God without loving all those whom God loves, because God is love. When you invite Jesus Christ into your heart, be ready to welcome Him and His friends. Who are His friends?

The rich and poor, old and young, male and female, well and sick, Jew, Samaritan, Babalawos Roman, Gentile. He loved thieves, prostitutes, tax collectors, lepers. Sinners all.

And the righteous people spat out their condemnation, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.” And they were right. He did. Mark 2:16.

If you truly love God, you will love those He loves.

That is the main thing!

Bodydiialect57:
How can you claim to love the God you have not seen, and yet hate your neighbor?

The true proof of our love for God is the love shown to others.

That's the main thing.

Bodydiialect57:
How can you claim to love the God you have not seen, and yet hate your neighbor?

The true proof of our love for God is the love shown to others.

That's the main thing.

HellVictorinho:
So, can you be of any help?

MuttleyLaff:
How can you claim to love the God you have not seen, and yet deny your neighbour mutually and unconditionally loving each other until death do part?

The true proof of our love for God is to allow unconditional love to be alive, thrive and/or flourish. Whoever that stands in the way of love does not know God, because God is love and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them.

To love, and be loved back in return, is to experience a blessed glimpse of heaven.
Praise God. Alleluia!

Bodydiialect57:
No lover is ever a loser, even if not loved back in return. We never lose when we love. God is love.

That is the main thing!

MuttleyLaff:
The loser is, whoever that stands in the way of love among two. Such loser, does not know God, because God is love and all who live in love, live in God and God lives in them.

Love. That is the main thing!

Bodydiialect57:
But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13

Bodydiialect57:
Jesus said we should love others. What did He mean?

Well, clearly, to love someone goes beyond feeling good about them or approving of their behavior.
No, that’s not what loving is about.

To love as Jesus loved is to value a person as a child of God. The value of a person has nothing whatsoever to do with their behavior.

Every person is of infinite worth simply because every person is a child of God, one for whom Jesus has died, and they are to be loved for that reason, and for that reason alone. So, we are to value others and want what's best for them our feelings notwithstanding.

And, in every way within our power, we are to do what is best for them. It’s not about our feelings towards them

To love is an act of the will, no matter how we feel at a given moment, we decide to love others because they are children of God and because God loves them. And because, as one Christian put it, “We may never be any closer to God than we are to those we love least.”

That is the main thing!

MuttleyLaff:
Love thy neighbour ..., is what scripture says, and not love because anyone, someone or anybody are children of God

Bodydiialect57:
And who is my neighbour? He/she is that anyone, anybody and someone that God so love. For God so love the world ....

Bodydiialect57:
A successful marriage depends upon the relationship between the husband and the wife.

A happy home depends upon the relationship between the parents and the children, and between siblings.

A prosperous business depends upon the relationship between the employees and the customers.

A peaceful community depends upon the relationship between neighbors.

A stable nation depends upon the relationship between the government and it's citizens.

A man's eternal destiny depends upon a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.


Relationship... that's the main thing!