Parasitic Relationships
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? (2 Corinthians 6:14)
Yesterday, we talked about knowing the difference between a relationship and an assignment. We learned how important it is for relationships to be mutual and reciprocal. Today, I want to go one step further and talk about how some people and places are not even assignments, they are parasites.
These are people and places in our lives that suck the life out of us; they drain us and build their lives at our expense. So many of us are drained today because we fell in love with a leech, dated a parasite, and neglected to connect to people, places, and things that charged and refreshed us the way we did them.
But we must decide in our relationships, if we choose to invest in something, it has to be real. That’s why the Bible counsels us to be in relationship with people with whom we are equally yoked. Because when you are hooked up with the wrong person, it’s like putting a good battery and an old battery in a remote control. It might work at the start but eventually it will stop because the power of the good battery will get drained by the lack of power in the old battery.
Do you have a parasitic relationship in your life right now? Do you feel like life is being sucked out of you? If so, I pray that you ask the Lord to free you from that relationship. Ask Him to help you pursue Him, as well as other people who are going to practice “give and take.” Also pray that God would give you the boldness to walk away from a relationship that is depleting your battery rather than recharging it.
Yesterday, we talked about knowing the difference between a relationship and an assignment. We learned how important it is for relationships to be mutual and reciprocal. Today, I want to go one step further and talk about how some people and places are not even assignments, they are parasites.
These are people and places in our lives that suck the life out of us; they drain us and build their lives at our expense. So many of us are drained today because we fell in love with a leech, dated a parasite, and neglected to connect to people, places, and things that charged and refreshed us the way we did them.
But we must decide in our relationships, if we choose to invest in something, it has to be real. That’s why the Bible counsels us to be in relationship with people with whom we are equally yoked. Because when you are hooked up with the wrong person, it’s like putting a good battery and an old battery in a remote control. It might work at the start but eventually it will stop because the power of the good battery will get drained by the lack of power in the old battery.
Do you have a parasitic relationship in your life right now? Do you feel like life is being sucked out of you? If so, I pray that you ask the Lord to free you from that relationship. Ask Him to help you pursue Him, as well as other people who are going to practice “give and take.” Also pray that God would give you the boldness to walk away from a relationship that is depleting your battery rather than recharging it.
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