Your Relationship With Christ

Hands down, no ifs ands or buts about it, the most important relationship in your life is your relationship with Christ! For the Christian, this relationship should supersede any other relationship and always be the primary relationship in your life. The reason being, it lays the framework for all other relationships in your life.

If you are not a Christian, there is no time like the present to learn more about Christ and invite Him into your heart and life.

It’s not enough about Him, we must seek to have a relationship with Christ. One of the questions I’m most often asked, is “how do you develop a relationship with Christ?” Believe it or not, the same way you develop relationships with people is the same way you develop a relationship with God.

Developing a Relationship

Think back to when you were in school and a boy decided he wanted to develop a relationship with you. He saw you and he didn’t settle for just knowing about you. He asked your name, age, grade, etc.

He may have started by asking friends about you, but eventually he begin to devise plans to conveniently run into you or somehow be where you just happened to be. Soon, he began talking to you, making plans to spend time with you and/or take you out on a date. He told you he thinks of you often and he did things for you.

Now he could have made up or imagined things about you, but that would not have been based on the truth, nor would he have really gotten to know you or enjoy the benefits of having a relationship with you.

The same is true with God. Don’t guess or make up stuff about Him, spend time with Him and develop a fulfilling relationship with Him.

Developing a Relationship with Christ

The same way that young man pursued you is the way God wants you to pursue Him. This doesn’t just apply to male female relationships, similar tasks are undertaken when you develop just about any relationship or make friends.

Developing a relationship with Christ follows the same path, however different tools are used.

• You spend time with Him ( Prayer)
• You learn His likes and dislikes ( Study the Bible)
• You think about Him (Meditate on His Word)
• You strive to please Him (Obedience)
• You do things for Him (Serve Others)

To know God is to experience Him. Henry Blackaby and Claude King eloquently described in their book Experiencing God, that “God longs for you to desire Him and His ways. He is at work reconciling a lost world to Himself through His Son Jesus Christ. God invites you to be involved with Him. When you experience God working in and through you, you will come to know Him more fully.”

“Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.” - John 17:3 NIV