Your Sacrifice Will Show Your Willingness To Make Love Work...

Warmest African greetings to everyone who believes that loving and being loved is worth it. I feel very honoured anytime I have the opportunity to write on this blog and share thoughts with you on matters relating to our relationships. I am also glad to say that your text messages for copies of the books mentioned in my last post were received and the last two were shipped off by the morning of last week Thursday. Please don't forget to write and say you have taken delivery of the book.

You can make love work, if you want to...

I always say to my friends, that relationships work if the people in it want it to work. Our willingness to make our relationship work is always expressed in the sacrifice we are willing to make in order to sustain our relationships. This truth is absolute whether the difference between the parties in the relationship hinges on ethnicity, socialisation, profession, background, age or religion.

And on the issue of what the bible says about relationship with someone of a different faith, a lot of people speak of the statement of Paul that "we should not be equally yoked with unbelievers, for what connection does light have with darkness..." as their standard, I dare say that while we should not engage in contextual theology debates, we serve a God who in His sovereignty can alter any principle which may have held sway among people, no matter for how long. He got Ruth, a Moabite (one of the descendants of an incestuous relationship between Lot and one of his daughters) into the genealogy of Jesus, same with Rahab the prostitute, who lived on the walls of Jericho (reference: Matthew 1). You can also see the story of Samson and his Philistine wife (see the conversation between Samson and his parents in Judges 14:1-4); and the relationship between Hosea and His wayward wife... (See the book of Hosea).

No two relationships are the same irrespective of the similarities we might see. God does what He pleases, and we must do well to submit to Him as we ought, i.e., on His terms, and not on ours.

One thing is important, that one is located in the centre of God’s will as He (God) holds the blueprint of our lives as far as the reason for our creation is concerned. We make choices everyday and they always have consequences. Even when those consequences look so grievous that we become uncertain about the choices we make and how they connect to God’s will for our lives, always trust that the will of God will never take you to a place where His grace cannot sustain you.  If God is in it, God will see you through. Best wishes

Blessings and more, to you and yours

SHALOM