Have you ever been taken for granted? Have you ever felt that someone has taken advantage of your friendship or relationship? I am sure that everyone has had that moment in their life. It doesn’t feel great. Then when that person comes to us and needs something, we are not sure if we really want to jump to help them.

Now, let us put the shoe on the other foot. Have you have taken someone for granted or taken advantage of someone? Sometimes we do that without even knowing it, and we wonder why that person reacts to us the way they do, and we wonder why they are not so nice or are not willing to help us anymore.

We are in an awesome relationship with Jesus. That word, relationship, is so key, it's not a religion. We have to realize that, but even more, we have to realize that we are in an awesome relationship with Jesus.

Here is how awesome it is. We take Jesus for granted all the time. We always want Him to do things for us in our lives. Yet, how often do we put Jesus’ needs in front of our own? Do we talk to Jesus as much as we talk to our friends? How often do we choose to do something for ourselves instead of for Jesus. How often do we complain to Jesus about why He is apparently, in our opinion, not doing something for us. If you think over your life, and are honest, you should be like wow, I haven’t been that great of a partner in this relationship.

Now here is the awesome part. Jesus never walks away from the relationship. When we do talk to Him, Jesus never makes it awkward. Jesus still is willing to show up in our lives and do things even when we have put Him on the back burner, and even when we have complained about Him.

That is the definition of an Awesome relationship.

I have two points:

First, we need to not take our relationship with Jesus for granted. It should humble us every day to realize that Jesus has no reason to be in a relationship with us, but yet He still desires to have one with us. We do many things where Jesus should just walk away, and yet He never does, and never has any intention to do so.

Second, what if we were more awesome in our relationship towards Jesus. How much better things could be for us! James 4:8 states, "Draw near to God and He will draw near to you."  We have the choice of how close we want this relationship to be, or how distant. Think about how amazing our earthly relationships are when we choose to be close. Now imagine, how good our relationship with Jesus can be if we choose to get closer and closer and closer all the days of our life.

You want to have an amazing life with Jesus, well, Jesus is ready to give it to you. He just wants to know how amazing you want it to be, and if you really appreciate Him. When we choose to do and show this, watch what Jesus will do, because...

Remember Jesus loves you; I love you, and you are awesome!