Today we are completing our four-week series called, Healing Fractured Relationships.
Today, I’ll focus on two cousins who attack our relationships: Mistrust and suspicion.
I especially like to read Psalm 146:3-9 in the Message translation,
Don’t put your life in the hands of experts who know nothing of life, of salvation life. Mere humans don’t have what it takes; when they die, their projects die with them. Instead, get help from the God of Jacob, put your hope in GOD and know real blessing! GOD made sky and soil, sea and all the fish in it. He always does what he says— he defends the wronged, he feeds the hungry. GOD frees prisoners— he gives sight to the blind, he lifts up the fallen. GOD loves good people, protects strangers,
takes the side of orphans and widows, but makes short work of the wicked.
1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 says, 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
7 tips to building trusting relationships:
1. Love is patient.
What does it mean to say ‘Love is patient?’
It suggests that love doesn’t give up on people or situations when they
become challenging or testing.
2. Be kind to all people.
3. Use your words to represent Jesus well.
4. Control your temper.
5. Forgive.
6. Rejoice with others.
7. Trust God in all situations.