Relationships

Dale Carnegie provided suggestions to his readers regarding relationships.  He aimed to enhance his readers' influence and success. 

Life is made up of relationships.  How we view the relationships in our lives matters. 

• Do we love for love's sake? 
• Do we care out of true concern? 
• Do we see connections as means to an end? 
• Do we sustain only the relationships that best benefit us? 

Peter, the Disciple, wrote about relationships.  In doing so, he highlighted love.

When he wrote those words, certainly his mind pulled up the memory of his lakeside chat with Jesus.  Earlier Peter, through his three-fold denial, sinned against his Lord.  On the beach, Jesus restored Peter by, likewise, highlighting love (see John 21).  We observe that when Peter wrote of love covering a multitude of sins, he wrote out of personal experience.

A great value of relationships is the way in which they pull focus from self.  When our view of relationships is healthy,  they cause us to focus on others and to care for them. 

Peter learned that living for and loving Jesus was, in large part, about loving others.  As you live for Jesus, love others by treating your relationships as they should be treated.  Value relationships for relationships' sake.

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