Parker Inspirations

Being so comfortable with others and missing out on blessings.

Sometimes we miss so much with those we spend the most time with because we are comfortable with them. Many times, over the years I have heard Preachers say that to keep a marriage working is to keep doing what you did to start the relationship. When you were dating you, you talked to each other, you sent notes, and you spent time together. Well as time goes by, we get comfortable with each other and we do not do those things anymore.

I think all relationships should be fresh and new every day. We should always be looking for ways to create a newness in that relationship. If we treat each other as if it is a new relationship, we will be more kind to one another. When we get comfortable with relationships, we tend to take advantage of each other. We do not do it on purpose, we do it because of that comfortability. Kindness is a work in progress. We must work at doing things for others. Especially those that we love the most. Those who we know are the cornerstones that are tried and true. Everyone needs kindness.

Look at the relationships around you. Are you so comfortable that you have not let them know lately how much you appreciate them? When was the last time you thought of someone and prayed for them and told them, I am praying for you? When was the last time you gave a card to someone just because? We need to be careful with getting too comfortable with those around us and missing when they need us the most.

We all have good days and bad days. We all need someone to just be there occasionally to say I am here for you. Recently I was told that all I need to do was remind them by saying I just need a hug, or I need extra prayer today. No details need to follow if they are a true friend. This is where we can show that extra love and kindness that should always be fresh and new. I might add, if we treat each day as new, we will be more sensitive to those closest to us and we will not always need a reminder, we will already know they need us.

More importantly if we pray for each other daily, we will also have times when the Lord will lay someone on our heart that needs that extra prayer that day. I know when someone is really praying for me when I get a text or a phone call asking me is everything okay? I have been thinking about you a lot. I am praying for you. Just that alone lifts my spirits, and everything seems so much better.

Romans 12:9-10, “Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

¹⁰ Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another;”

Ephesians 4:32, “And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”

Proverbs 31:26, “She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.”

John 13:34, “A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.”

Ephesians 4:2, “With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;”

1 Thessalonians 4:9, “But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.”

Hebrews 10:24, “And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works:”

I could put many more verses on here. The Bible is full of direction, teaching us how we are to love one another, how we should be kind and how to pray.