Relationships

Excerpt from the book Relational Intelligence by Steve Saccone

It's hard to find to find anything that matters more than relationships. To understand the full gravity of the power and significance of relationships, we have to look at the origin and source of them. Relationships didn't begin as a human initiative, but instead as a divine one flowing from the center of who God is. God didn't create human beings because He somehow needed us; rather, He created human beings as relational because He exists as a relational being. His desire for us is to enjoy the kind of community that He experiences within Himself. God is not a lonely being searching for community, because He has community within Himself (Father, Son, Spirit). Although I cannot comprehend this mystery of how God exists in this capacity, I do know that human beings have been created in His image and likeness, which involves being created as relational beings. What matters most to God is relationships, and that's why they are the foundation of the human economy.