Does your happiness depends on anyone else’s affections, opinions, and presence in your life? If so, the relationship has become skewed-get help before it becomes a prison!

Relationships are scary and fraught with difficulties. Our insecurities can make us emotionally unstable, overly dependent, and fearful. We get entangled and bogged down in toxic relationships. So, we turn to God’s Word. The Scriptures help us to disentangle ourselves from the cobweb of messy relationships and point us to Christ as our everlasting security. People make for insufficient foundations. Build your life around another person, and you will inevitably be hurt and disappointed. We can never get from people the satisfaction that our souls desire. God gives us his Word to reorient our worship away from the people whom we so desperately want, to himself instead. We embrace God’s Word because it points us to Christ as our one, true, and sufficient foundation.

Reju, D. (2021). How to Nourish Your Soul. In D. Reju (Ed.), Toxic Relationships: Taking Refuge in Christ (p. 8). P&R Publishing.