Nearly everyone engaged in a relationship falls in one category or another.

   Some people prefer to live single with no emotional relationship with any person. Millions of people in the world live happy lives as singles without the need for another to fulfill themselves. Such singles have friends with whom they share important moments, successes, and failures. Their relationships are purely platonic without intimacy or commitment of any kind. Such arrangements are actually encouraged in the bible, especially for those involved in ministry.

   Beyond the godly single life, there is a growing list of other types of relationships including:

   A Spuggie is a single person who wants no relationship but just needs someone for the moment for a quick fix. Spuggies specialize in one-night stands, hookups, and late-night calls with people they may not even know.

   Sponsor. A sponsor has no feeling in the relationship at all. It is strictly commercial. A sponsor pays bills, provides resources, and doles out money. A sponsor is a gold miner, the person with money; the other partner is the gold digger, whose role is to get as much gold as possible before the strike runs out. The gold digger has no concern about the mine or the miner.

 We enjoy a covenant relationship with God. He is not a "spuggie" God of convenience or a gold miner. We are not gold diggers, seeking what we can get, and he does not sponsor us, giving us what we want in return for what he wants. Our relationship is based on love and sacrifice.