What would it look like if you prioritized your life to be with the Holy Spirit? To stay connected to His presence, to allow Him to teach you and to guide you, and to trust Him to help you in every circumstance of your life? How would that change things for you?

The goal of an abiding relationship is not to avoid friction at all costs. You cannot live intimately with another human being without eventually stepping on their toes, hurting their feelings, or profoundly disappointing them. The goal instead is to learn how to handle the friction without severing the connection.

Three lessons we can learn from Jesus in John 5 on how to respond to pressure and how we can apply that to parenting.

When you abide in Christ, your everyday relationships shift from transactional to transformational. You stop asking, “What can I get from these people?” and you start asking, “Lord, how do You want Your life to overflow onto these people right now through me?” The fruit Jesus talks about isn’t just for you, it’s also meant to be tasted by the people around you.

A healthy marriage is not two broken people facing each other, desperately trying to complete each other. It is two people, completely secure and deeply loved by God, standing side by side, and letting His life mutually overflow between them.