God is so amazing! He speaks to us in ways that we never expect…like when we misspell a word?!?
Recently, as I was typing, I mistakenly misspelled the word “united” by placing the “T” before the “I”. I caught my mistake right away, and realized that I had actually spelled out another word…"untied." God immediately spoke to my spirit concerning the relationship between these words.
United and untied have complete opposite meanings. United means “to put or join together, as to make one.” Untied means “to free from, to unloose.” What makes them completely different words is the two letters in the middle of the word…"IT." God immediately showed me WHAT the “IT” was….IT was LOVE. “It,” love, has everything to do in the world with relationships. In order to completely understand how united and untied works in relationships, I referenced I Corinthians 13...
4 Love is patient, love is kind and not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
5 does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
6 does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails….
These attributes of love are what aid in keeping relationships united. The opposite of these attributes of love can definitely cause a relationship to become untied. Impatience, unkindness, jealousy, boasting, arrogance, rudeness, selfishness, unforgiveness, evil behavior, lying, intolerance, distrust, pessimism, or failing to contribute to a relationship in a positive manner can cause “the ties that bind” to become loosed and untied. The un"it"ed relationship becomes un"ti"ed…
To keep “it” in perspective, God must be central to the relationship. After all, God IS love. (I John 4:8.) “For He is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us.” Ephesians 2:14.
And to think that this whole idea came from a misspelled word…isn’t God awesome!!!
Live in the luxury of God's love!
Be blessed, in Jesus' Name...
Angie
I really needed to read this post this morning. I found out last night that I hurt my best friend's feeling so much that she felt that she couldn't talk to me about it for several days. I recieced an email last night that explained her feelings. I was taken aback, because I had no clue that I had even hurt her feelings. I was so upset that she sat there hurting for several days before she told me about it. Had she not told me of my blunder, It would have been an unTIed friendship. I really need to memorize the verses of Chorinthians and recite them in my head before I speak.
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