Doing life together is a partnership. As we learn to do life with God, we must know His part and know our part. The most effective relationships work when we know and do our part and allow the other person to know and do their part.

To do life together takes trust. The more you trust someone the easier it is to do life with them. The reason being is because you know they will do what they say they will do and they know you will do what you say you will do. There is no manipulation, control, fear, anxiety, or deception. Trust is the key to doing life with others.

As we walk with God, He is truth, He is light, He is hope, He is joy, He is life, He is authentic in the truest sense of the word. Trusting God should be the easiest thing we can do, but you can’t trust who you don’t know.

From Genesis 1 until now, God has wanted to walk with us, He trusts us, wants to do life with us, but we have a role to play in this relationship. Psalm 32:1-2 lays out this relationship perfectly. “Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the one whose sin the LORD does not count against them and in whose spirit is no deceit.”

God forgives our transgressions, covers our sins and does not count them against us. This is His role in this relationship. Our role is to live with no deceit in our spirit. We have been really good at letting God play His role in our lives, being forgiven, but we have not been good at letting the truth set us free from deceit.

Deceit is what has kept us from doing life with God and others. Deceit is the enemy of all relationships. If we do not love truth, no matter what lie that means we must address, we will not be able to do life with God or others, for our role is to have a spirit in which there is no deceit.

No wonder Paul said in Romans 12:2 do not be conformed, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. We must not go another day with the deceit in our spirit that is hindering our ability to do life with God and with others. Truth is the only way, not my truth or your truth, but God’s truth that sets us free. Www.apostolicresourcecenter.org