3 Tips For Godly Relationships

When it comes to our romantic relationships, we have so many amazing opportunities to give glory to God. However, that may not be the immediate thought that comes to your mind when you think of dating or marriage. 

Sometimes we can forget about God in the midst of our romantic dates, fluttering feelings, and silly laughter. But after all, He’s the one who designed this thing called love.

In the beginning of a relationship, it’s very easy to only focus on the guy you like and the feelings he gives you. But after those initial things die down a little, you’ll need some substance to truly make the relationship stand. That’s why it’s important to put God in the center of your romantic relationships at all times! (And even if you’ve been in a relationship for a while, or even married for years, it’s never too late to include God!)

Our dating/marriage relationships should be used to bring glory to our Lord by loving another person in the way that God loves us, by allowing God to seep into every aspect of the relationship. That’s how a strong, Godly relationship is built.

So how do we do that? Here are my top three tips for stewarding a Godly relationship:

1. Give Grace →

It can be so easy to overlook inconsistencies and negative traits in our partners at the beginning of a relationship. But after a while, those things can begin to get rather annoying. And after we’ve become comfortable with someone, we don’t always think twice about pointing out what we don’t like.

This is just a natural human tendency, but it can have disastrous effects on a relationship after time. So how do we combat the urge to point out the negative? By giving grace!

When we notice something in our man that we don’t like, we have to resist the urge to point it out by letting things go. When he accidentally says something that hurt our feelings, we have to resist the urge to make him feel worse than he already does by letting things go.

My point? Learn to let things go!

No one is perfect, and you’re eventually going to do something that your guy doesn’t like as well. You’re going to eventually mess up too. And what are you going to want him to do when that happens? Forgive you.

So start practicing forgiveness and make it a regular habit in your relationship to give grace, just as our God gives grace to us every single day.

2. Watch Your Words →

It’s true that negative words take a toll overtime. If someone is consistently being negative, we usually don’t want to be around them for very long. This goes the same for romantic relationships.

We should be using our relationships as an opportunity to build another person up. We should look at our partner as someone who deserves our very best, and strive to make their life better off.

How can we do that? By giving them our very best with our words.

Aim to give compliments, express your love, uplift with encouragement, and speak Godly things over your guy at all times. When you create an atmosphere of positivity and genuine love with your words, the atmosphere surrounding your relationship will be just as God intended it to be.

Of course no one is perfect and you’ll mess up sometimes, but that’s what tip number one is for! And when there is an atmosphere of positivity by watching our words, giving grace when a mistake happens becomes a whole lot easier to do.

3. Love Unconditionally →

This ultimate tip is probably one you’ve heard before, but I feel it’s one we take for granted. It can sometimes go right over our heads and we don’t strive for it as much as we should.

The foundation of our relationship with the Lord is unconditional love. He loves us so much despite all of our flaws, disobedience, sin, and worldly ways. Yet, He still gave His son to die for us so we could be saved.

So, it make sense that in order for us to build a Godly dating/marriage relationship we must also love our partner unconditionally. Unconditional love is the trademark of our God.

Forgiving when forgiveness is not deserved, sacrificing when it’s not easy, giving more when they give less, offering your strength when they are weak, believing they can be their best even when they’re giving you their worse— that is the pinnacle of unconditional love and is at the center of a Godly relationship.

As you may have noticed, tip one and two follow perfectly in line with tip three. They all work together seamlessly and complimentary to create a loving, accepting, nurturing, and fruitful relationship that defines the Godly meaning of love.

The bottom line: If you want to build a Godly relationship, love like God loves.

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