A Petition for the Proper Relational Position (With God)
September 25, 2023
A Petition for the Proper Relational Position (With God)
Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy and teach me thy statutes. Psalm 119:124
There is a considerable consensus of thought that the three things that humans need to live are food, water and shelter. Though food, water and shelter are genuine needs, we must elevate the essentiality of oxygen. Because if you can’t breathe you would have to be buried because there would be no need to drink or to dine due to your death from lack of breath. Although there are other essential elements for our existence like clothing and health care, I submit to you that there is an additional need critical to our wellbeing and that is the need for relationship uniquely union and relationship with God.
The word of God declares that we were created to experience and embrace a relationship with God which is recorded in the first chapter in the bible.
Genesis 1:26a And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
Genesis 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
God also wanted us to have relationships with others.
Genesis 2:18a And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone.
So, God in his absolute unmatched genius and wisdom made us with a need to connect with him and others. It is also important to underscore another exceptional blessing from our benevolent creator. When we consider all the creatures that God made, we (mankind) enjoy a uniqueness that is unmistakable. We were made in his image and to have dominion or rule over the animal kingdom.
Genesis 1:25-27 And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
I believe that because God bestowed upon us this unique and exceptional position of dominion over the creation and notably made in His image makes us unlike any being and creature God has ever made. And undoubtedly, we have an absolute jealous and hate filled enemy Satan. He will never have what we enjoy with God. And we should never forget that of all creatures that God created Jesus was sent and was willing to die for us.
Matthew 20:28 Even as the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many
John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 Timothy 1:15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
God gave us the gift of relationship and a need for relationship with him so should he not lead and define the relationship? In our next time together let’s ponder the psalmist heart in Psalm 119:124
Not a sermon just some thoughts
For the Glory of God,
PBKSR