God's Physics of Relationships

The laws of God are like gravity. They exist and operate whether we believe in them or not. I'm using the word “law” here like in physics – principles we observe operating universally. God set up these laws to bless us. For example, airplanes, gymnastics, weather and communication satellites – all of these blessings come from understanding the law of gravity and using it properly.

But if we say, “I don't believe in gravity, so I'm going to jump off my roof and fly,” I daresay we are in for a rude awakening and an abrupt landing! Gravity still operates as God designed it whether we believe in it on not. “Gee, that was dumb,” we would say to ourselves as we hobble around the next few weeks on crutches. We injure ourselves if we try to live in opposition to God's law of gravity.

God's principles apply to the saved and unsaved alike. Both saved and unsaved can be blessed by air travel or an around-the-world phone call. Both saved and unsaved alike will be injured if they jump off their garage. Hobble, hobble.

So many of us today, even Christians, hobble through our injured relationships because we don't understand relationship principles, as trustworthy and universal as physical laws, that God wove into the fabric of the universe to bless us. When we live in opposition to them out of ignorance or outright willful sin, we injure ourselves, saved or unsaved. But when we live in accordance with them, that area of our life will be blessed, saved or unsaved.

So these next few blog posts will be fun – stayed tuned as we go through God's 4 laws of relationships. You might find it explains a lot. :) [Kudos to John Sandford and Elijah House Ministries who first codifed this teaching in this form.]