"personal relationship"

Christians use this phrase a lot. I have a "Personal Relationship" with Jesus Christ. We seem to use it freely and without meaning. Pastors even use it each Sunday and ask if people would like a personal relationship with Jesus. Now, I'm not condemning Pastors for that because the bible tells us that we should go and make disciples of the nations. We are called to introduce Jesus to people.

There are some people who have no idea what that means. Some people can't even say that they are intimate with God. Let me tell you that intimacy is more than sexual. If you look up the meaning of the word it says, "closely acquainted, private and personal, a very close friend." That says NOTHING about sex at all. In life, we have really close friends in certain seasons. They come and they go. We know when something isn't right or when things are good by the way they carry themselves.

You can talk to that person about anything and not feel judged. There is nothing wrong with having friends like that. God has already known you like that and wants you to know Him like that. Let me give you a word of advice, you will never know Him fully. He will always be revealing things to you that you didn't know about Him. That way the relationship can be new and exciting. Someone who has been a Christian for many many years will tell you honestly that they don't know everything about God.

When someone hears "Personal Relationship" it can instantly make them roll their eyes. If it's something that they hear all the time, it becomes a joke. I feel like this is the face they make.

When teenage girls get into relationships they "Facebook" blast it. Shoot, when grown women are in relationships and they are in love they blast it all over the place. Christians are the same way right when they get saved. It's BOOM BOOM BOOM, "Look how amazing my relationship is with Christ. Look at all the great things that God has done and will do." There is a huge passion to talk about Him all the time. Same in a new relationship. But what happens when the relationship becomes boring and not exciting anymore? 

To have a relationship with someone is more than just one day a week. I couldn't be in a marriage with Justin if it was only one day a week. The relationship starts to dwindle and disappear. If you just think that going to church on Sunday is going to be enough for you to maintain a relationship with Christ you are dead wrong. You take any friendship that you have, if you don't talk to them on a regular basis the strength of the relationship will disappear. You won't be as important. You will become an after thought. 

God never leaves, we do. We start talking to him less and less. We stop going to church. We stop reading God's word. We stop trying to make an effort to tell people about Christ. We stop being an example of Christ love. We spend more time bitter than better. So when you tell people that you have a personal relationship with God, do you REALLY have a personal relationship with Him? Or are you just saying that to "fit into" the hype.