Improving Your Relationships – Feb 23, 2014

  1. Refocus on Christ and His commands.

Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: ” ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”    Matthew 22:34-40

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” John 13:34

  1. Reconcile your feelings with you faith in Christ.

“Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done.”  Luke 22:42

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.   1 John 4:18 

Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.  Revelation 2:5

  1. Relate to others as Christ chooses to relate to you.

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God– not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.  Ephesians 2:8-10

But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.   1 John 1:7

Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Ephesians 4:32

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.  Romans 15:7

This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.   1 John 3:16

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