Agreement Matters!
PERSPECTIVE MATTERS... Relationship Matters!
“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?” ~ Amos 3:3 ESV
In relationships, you simply cannot downplay the pure power of agreement. Nothing disintegrates peace like the specter of disagreement and nothing brings peace like the power of agreement. I’m sure you’ve heard people say, “Opposites attract!” Yes, they sure do! Opposites attract disagreement. And disagreement will bring its fair share of trouble. Unless opposites agree to meet in spite of their bipolar positions on certain issues, theirs will be a bumpy and hard to navigate road to relational bliss. They will likely never arrive to a place of relational peace, unless their coming to mutual terms to agree that peace will never be a paramount part of their relationship is their twisted idea of reaching a peaceful solution. And is that what you really want? To pepper your relationship with bouts of disagreement and the guarantee of dysfunction? Beware of falling for the allure of dysfunction just for the sake of keeping things “interesting.”
Personally, I’d rather be bored by peace than excited by conflict. But that’s just me. Or is it? God has a perspective on relationships on every human and divine level. And God’s perspective on relationships is that agreement comes with rewards and disagreement comes with punishing consequences. God demonstrated this in Old Testament tabernacle times when the Israelites gathered together in unity in the tabernacle. Part of the pay-off was the divine presence of the Lord God who personally filled the tabernacle with His powerful presence. God’s desire for peace among His people is punctuated by these words from the Psalmist: “How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!” (Psalm 133:1). In today’s New Testament church times, the power of agreement among the people of God comes with the promise of the demonstrative power of God to answer prayer petitions: “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by My Father in heaven” (Matthew 18:19). These are the very words from the lips of Jesus then to our ears today. What a powerful promise that comes with the power of agreement!
Isn’t it painfully, if not plainly obvious that God’s perspective where relationships are concerned is that peace should always be the goal? If you have any lingering doubts please take note of this admonishment from the pen of the Apostle Paul written to the New Testament church at Ephesus: “Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace” (Ephesians 4:3). You can only have unity when you have agreement and you can only have agreement when you have unity. Relationships are functional only when they are punctuated by agreement and unity. Anything less will only produce less than what God orders, ordains and approves of. You shouldn’t settle for anything less than what pleases God if He is indeed your Lord.
To keep your relationship as free from unreasonable dysfunction as possible, take note of the frequency and intensity of your disagreements early on in the formative stages in your relationships. If disagreement is your relationship’s default position, give serious thought and prayer to repositioning yourself out of the burgeoning dysfunctional disaster of a relationship you may be setting yourselves up for. Find your excitement in the peace you order and God ordains between you, rather than in the dysfunctional disagreements that characterize the mayhem of relationships that should have never been entered into in the first place. Let peace rule the day and your hearts. Perspective Matters...
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