I was talking with one of my friends yesterday through text about a band… Manchester Orchestra… they’re good. Check ‘em out if you haven’t already heard them… and if you have, listen to them some more. Anyway… so we we’re going back and forth about this band and maybe trying to see them in concert and out of no where my friend asks me this question. He says, “When you were dating (previous girlfriend) did you ever like another girl besides her?” This question kinda startled me because it literally came out of nowhere I mean it went straight from Manchester Orchestra in one message to this question in the next. But… he is one of my best friends so… I answered. I said, with complete honesty, that admittedly at times during our relationship other girls had caught my attention as attractive but none of them ever made me want to break up with her. Then, of course, I asked him why he asked me that. His reply hit me in the face because it was so full of truth. He said that he’d been thinking a lot about how a relationship between a man and a woman so closely resembles how our relationship with God usually works. This is so true. I mean, I know that marriage is supposed to be a picture of God’s intimate relationship with his church, but I’d never thought much more of it than that. Think about it! In our relationships with our Savior, many times throughout our lives, throughout our days, sin seems desirable. Temptation creeps up and grabs us. It looks so beautiful, attractive and enticing. Sometimes we even want to dive in headfirst. Sometimes we loose all sight of our current commitments. However, in the end, in a true growing relationship with our Savior we never leave Him, or should I say, He never leaves us. At least in my own life, in every circumstance, every temptation, and every sin, God never leaves and eventually I realize my need for Him. Eventually, every time, I realize that nothing else satisfies, that He is the only One. Just a thought… kinda scattered…
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