Are Relationships Really Needed?

"Benevolence towards an independent individual creates bonds and bridges; towards a dependant person, it creates annexation and is overwhelming."  Rabbi Lieberman

When we think of relationships, we generally don’t think of relationships other than with other people. Right?

If we really think about it relationships are all around us. Our hands work together in relationship.  Perfect example is when we open a jar.. One hand holds and the other twists. Two working together in relationship.

Almost everything that has been created has a form of relationship naturally occurring.  God loves relationships, ultimately, He is the author of all relations. 

Only God, our creator, can create such an elaborate ways of balancing relationships. He created relationships in every aspect around us. In animals, in plants, in the moon and sun. We can even see it in the retelling of the Passover story.  

During the first Passover, the plague of the death of the first born was the only plague that required the Israelites to “take actions” to prevent the death of their firstborn as well as the Egyptians.

Why did the plague involve death?  Because of the stubbornness of man (pharoh) and prior deeds the Egyptians had taken against God's covenant people.  Moses had even warned pharoh of what would happen and pharoh could have stopped it. But just as the Egyptians had slain so many Israelite male babies, they in turn reaped the very thing they made the Israelites endure.  

Because the plague involved death in such a way, God had to have access to help the Israelites and keep His covenant relationship He made with Abraham.  It was the sacrificial lambs blood above the door post of each home. Death could not pass over the blood sacrifice and take those life’s. The blood applied made atonement for each home it was applied to and prevented deaths right to take the Israelites first born.  

This did not just happen though, that blood applied above each doorpost had to be applied by the head of that home. Each household had to take actions to protect their families from death that this plague brought. They had to choose to obey God's instructions.  

On that Passover night when the plague came to Egypt, it was God who looked for the applied blood and prevented that plague upon that home. God ask the Israelites to apply the blood to the doorpost so the Israelites could receive His help to be free and so relationships with him could be restored and/or initiated.  The blood applied is the bridge between man and God to allow God's Devine protection. 

It seems when two forces have a parallel relationship they repel each other. Like magnetic forces. Good and evil are parallel forces. Due to the choices mankind made the world we live in allows evil free access.  So, in order to allow good to be in in charge, it requires a bridge. 

That bridge is made through a sacrifice because good cannot overcome evil and leave your life in tact.  Goodness literally consumes all it is around and in order for a man to freely choose God and His goodness and to be in a relationship with Him, man needed a way or access to Him.

That way is a “Passover” or bridge. 

In order for man to draw close to God when we choose Him it requires a bridge to Passover the evil (sin) without fully consuming man.  The blood sacrifice is what is applied to the bridge for giving goodness access and allowing God to help us and have relationship with us. 

Yeshua, the Messiah became that sacrifice once and for all.  He successfully lived on earth as a man without sinning, thus qualifying Him to be the sacrifice needed for all who would invite God and His goodness to fully reign and be victorious over evil we are surrounded by and the sins we’ve committed. 

But man must invite Him. 

 Each person must choose and acknowledge the help God is offering.  We must apply His help by accepting “The Passover Lamb” He gave for us.  

God’s heart has been to restore His and mans relationship since the fall of man in the garden. He wants relationship!

Let’s take a look at what happened to cause the need of a bridge. 

In the garden, God told Adam not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Well, both Adam and Eve ate it. Once Adam and Eve ate from the tree, it oped man’s eyes to “knowledge”.  

Now, the very “knowledge” of good and evil is the thing we must leverage to regain right standing relationship with God.

Why?  Because it’s the very thing that drove us apart to begin with. Since then knowledge of good and evil gave freedom to sin. In truth, knowledge  alone is a very dangerous thing. It is surface level view of things without understanding.  Without understanding there is no wisdom.

"Surely you desire truth in the inner being, make me know wisdom inwardly”. Psalm 51:8

Knowledge is knowing about something. Understanding that “something” and its very detail is wisdom. Then who better to get wisdom from than our creator, God?

It’s kinda like seeing weeds on the ground. You have knowledge that is a plant and it may grow where you may not want it to.  You've  also heard it called a weed.  So, in turn, that is your knowledge of it. 

But, when you take an interest in learning about that weed that you can see it's intrinsic value and understand you only call it a weed because you’ve been told it was and only have a base knowledge of it. 

The truth of it was hidden until you decided or took an interest in understanding it (go learn about dandelions and all it’s benefits).

So, tying this together, It’s Passover, and God wants us to understand that we have a choice to make, even today. Man’s fall created this great schism between man and God because it gave man "knowledge only" of good and evil. 

By being apart from God and driven only  from a “knowledge standpoint” to gain wisdom on our own, we’ve created the very circumstances we are living in today.  Look around, yep, we did that. 

The good news is that He gave the Passover lamb to save us from death. The ultimate sacrifice which when accepted we have access to salvation eternally and a restored relationship with Him.  He opens our eyes to understanding and helps us gain Godly wisdom.  He only requires us to acknowledge “with our knowledge” that we need Him, that we do not want to be empty and stuck in a place where our own "knowledge" has brought us.  

In a time when man’s knowledge, applied as wisdom, has created this very moment in our  timeline and has left many trying to put the brakes on and slow down this pace of evil envelopment only to find the brake lines have been cut and we are without brake fluid. Do not despair, it’s  not too late!

Let Him know you see this with the knowledge you have and want His divine protection and help.  Accept His son, the Messiah, Yeshua as your savior.  Let Him be the bridge back to God and true wisdom.  

“For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even) gave up His only begotten (Punique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. John 3:16

Then ask for understanding, true understanding, get a glimpse of how King David and Solomon were operating. They weren’t perfect but they did have a relationship with God  and He in turn gave them understanding. 

Jesus (Yeshua) made that available to anyone. Not just the king Davids'. 

Relationships will always be necessary, they occur everyday and in almost everything. The best relationship you or I could have is with God. He created relationships, in all things really. All functioning elements of our world work in tandem relations together. We (humans) are the only ones who think we can do it on our own apart from Him based on “knowledge” alone.  

I can attest completely to that fact because I lived that way many years.  I KNOW, I need Hm, I need understanding of relationships to be a part of one successfully.  I went through many relationships trying to find the perfect "fit".   It wasn't until I asked Him for help that I began to understand just what relationships truly are and began to see what He’s done for me.

It’s Passover now.  Wouldn’t it be the perfect time to build a bridge ?  Please don’t let mere knowledge keep you from His understanding and the best relationship you’ll ever have. 

I pray to be able to share from that place of understanding for any and all. 

Cheryl Sherman

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(Each one of these tiltles depends on relational interactions, I need my relationship with Him just to be able to function with relationships with in all of these life applications.  I openly acknowledge that ).