I guess one of the things painfully obvious about this whole ‘love dare’ thing is that marriage can be like a parabola.
Maybe you ignored this maths lesson at school...but essentially it is a bell curve. Where you start on the left travelling right up and up till you reach a pinnacle and then curve back down again.



What I am trying to say, is marriages and relationships can seem to be on one of these many times.

You get to know someone, fall in love...it just keeps getting better and better to the point you don’t know where the top of your parabola is.
And just as subtly it heads back down the other direction.

We seem to only notice something is wrong when we are hitting the bottom.
Like when we are near the level we first started.

I think many Christians find the same thing happening with their relationship with God.
It grows and grows as you get more and more hungry to learn and develop.
Then you get comfortable.
Then one day you find things aren’t quiet the same.

Just as your relationship to a partner is not limited to some ‘maths’ idea, nor is your relationship to God. Both don’t have to succumb to this fate.
But you can’t just hope that they won’t.

Any relationship takes some effort.
If you want to grow in God you need to feed the relationship. You need to take some time out for each other.

My encouragement to you this week is take some time out for just you and God.
Shut everything else away.
Do the ‘Jesus’ thing and withdraw for a time.
Pray.
Read.
Think.
Talk.

Don’t settle for less.
Go for everything in this relationship with God that he has for you.
And don’t be limited to a parabola.

Something to think about...