Asking Him or Her to Be Your Personal Messiah

“No human being was ever meant to be the source of personal joy and contentment for someone else … Your spouse, your friends, and your children cannot be the sources of your identity. When you seek to define who you are through those relationships, you are actually asking another sinner to be your personal messiah, to give you the inward rest of soul that only God can give. Only when  I have sought my identity in the proper place (in my relationship with God) am I able to put you in the proper place as well. When I relate to you knowing that I am God’s child and the recipient of his grace, I am able to serve and love you … and you are able to do the same with me!” Lane & Tripp’s, Relationships—A Mess Worth Making