When you think of the relationships in your life, who comes to mind first? Your spouse? Your parents? Your children? Maybe it is your best friend? What are the most important aspects of that relationship? Is it trust? Respect? Good communication? There are many important ingredients that go into all relationships. Your relationship with Jesus is the single most important relationship in your life. How can you have a relationship with some guy that walked the earth 2,000 years ago? Easy! As soon as your soul experiences re-birth, and you accept Him as your Savior, you immediately realize that Jesus Christ is, indeed, ALIVE! And all of the aspects of your other relationships in life are just as important in your relationship with Jesus. In fact, when you discover the magnitude of trust, respect and communication that you have with your Savior, it will enhance and strengthen all of those other relationships.
It is unfortunate that we live in a time when mass media has inundated us with the philosophies of many different religions. This complicates and confuses our focus on Jesus Christ. There are a lot of people who try to add a little of this religion and a little of that to come up with a sort of spiritual soup that leaves the soul hungry for some missing ingredient. The only ingredient necessary for a satisfied soul is Jesus.
Ponder this: for your whole life you have wondered about chocolate mousse, but you have never tasted it. Why? Because everybody you know and love tells you that it is vile and disgusting stuff that no right-minded person would ever even taste, mush less eat. Your mind tells you that it is chocolate, so it must be sweet; it is like pudding, so it must be creamy, but everybody tells you to stay away from it. Then one day, I come along and offer you a whole bowl of chocolate mousse. At first, you push it away. Then you decide that no one you know is watching, so you take a little taste. You discover that it is sweet, creamy and quite possibly, the best thing you have ever tasted. Now, you have a dilemma: if anybody you know finds out that you like chocolate mousse they might shun you, chastise you or even abandon you. What do you do? Every once in a while you sneak a bite when no one is around. You cant understand what all the fuss is about; this stuff is really good, why do they all think it is so bad? Simple, because they have never tasted it.
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