Three Legged Stool

All relationships are designed to be a three legged stool with one of the legs always being Jesus.  Be it a marriage, a friendship, a boyfriend, a girlfriend, a child, a sibling, or a parent, each represent one leg that without Jesus is a balancing act of a two legged stool in a relationship.  Relationships take work, commitment and ultimately require more giving than taking.  It does not require demands but demands patience.  It does not require entitlement but is entitled honoring one another.  Without Jesus being the third leg, a relationship is in tension and unstable trying to balance on two legs.  It is easily knocked over and it is difficult to sustain.  God designed us to have him as part of any relationship we have.  So that it is stable, blessed and strengthened.  The ways of this world that say that three is a crowd push aside that a three part stranded chord is stronger than a two or single stranded chord.  It is a geometry where the closer we get to Jesus, the closer we get with the other person in the relationship.  It also flushes out an imbalanced relationship where one of the parties will not get closer to Jesus or have Him as the third leg of the stool.  God’s economy and ways always has Jesus in the center.  Not as a authoritarian but as authority of knowing what is good for us and what our future hold.  Thank you Father for a simple illustration of how relationships are to be structured.