--- In Alabaster-Jars@yahoogroups.com, "Jackie" <webmistress@...> wrote:
>
> I've been thinking about relationships lately. I've decided to look
> to the Word and see what our relationships should look like. To that
> end, I'm starting with our relationship with God.
>
>
> God's relationship to us
> John 3:16-21
> `For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that
> everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.
>
> `Indeed, God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the
> world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Those
> who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe
> are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of
> the only Son of God. And this is the judgement, that the light has
> come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light
> because their deeds were evil. For all who do evil hate the light and
> do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. But
> those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be
> clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God.'
>
> God loves us enough to send the Son. I think we all know that-even if
> we don't always feel it. Yet, in the part of the passage that doesn't
> always get quoted, there is a balance in God's love. God has given us
> love, but we have to choose to respond to that love. "...all who do
> evil hate the light and do not come into the light."
>
> God wants us to be saved--and He wants us to choose to be saved. I
> believe this is becuase we are in God's image.
>
> Genesis 1:26
> Then God said, `Let us make humankind in our image, according to our
> likeness; and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
> over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the wild
> animals of the earth,* and over every creeping thing that creeps upon
> the earth.
>
> Genesis 1:27
> So God created humankind in his image,
> in the image of God he created them;
> male and female he created them.
>
> Embedded in our creation is "dominion". Dominion entails freedom to
> choose. God gives us that freedom to turn away from Him....and accept
> the consequences.
>
> What are your thoughts?
>
(Relationships.)

(Every good christian woman,)

Should have a good Christian and dependable man,someone that she can yell
at,lie to and blame when her lover knocks her up.