We live in a world that rewards performance. It’s ingrained in us from an early age. Tests, sports, education, manners; almost everything. And this performance-based mindset affects our view of and relationship to God. We can believe we must perform to certain standards to be in right relationship with God. We feel that when we do the right thing, God turns his chair toward us. We feel that when we do the wrong thing, He turns His is back on us. As such, we begin creating religious performance-based rules for ourselves and then live by them, in bondage. But Jesus didn’t come to start a religion. He came to restore a relationship.
The best way to protect your marriage is to practice the promises you made when you said “I do”.
Salvation is free; it costs us nothing. Following Jesus will eventually cost us something.
Our heavenly Father has one desire for us- to transform us into everything He created us to be. But we weren’t meant to do...
