Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. 1 John 4:7
The focus this month for my family is to challenge how we look at our relationships. The other night my hubby and I had some stressful dialogue (or a fight as some may call it) over words I said that he misunderstood (or maybe I did not communicate them accurately). Whatever the case what I said and how he heard it created conflict. Relationships can have conflict and can cause conflict. Relational conflict is not unique to any of us. All relationships require grace, truth and what I like to call a reset.
The best relationships allow for resets. God did this for His people in the Old Testament time and time again. His people would complain, sin and they had plenty of opportunities to come to Him for a reset through sacrifices and offerings. There were times of great feasting and festivals after these times of reseting (repenting) over ones sins and making atonement for them by the blood of animals. “God’s law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were. But as people sinned more and more, God’s wonderful grace became more abundant.” (Romans 5:20) The covenantal commitment God made with His people allowed for this reset and was a foreshadow of the greatest reset of all times.
The great reset is not a point in time, but a continuum. Jesus Christ came to give the greatest reset. One that lasts for all eternity. He sealed our covenant relationship with God when He died on the cross for our sins. He was the ultimate sacrifice so we could receive the greatest relational reset of all time. “Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.” (John 15:13)
Out of this love and in his arms, we can share this love and allow resets in our other relationships. Forgiveness freely given with the free gift of grace to receive. The challenge now is to live as one reset and ready to share this type of radical love with others.
The Greatest Reset
Conflict. Grace. Reset.
What relationships in my life need a reset?
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