What is it we all long for in our lives? It is to be truly understood by another, truly loved, embraced, cared for no matter our condition, lot in life, challenges, or spiritual quandary in which we find ourselves engaged. I believe in love, mutual understanding, caring beyond end, abandoning oneself , to be selfless , totally giving yourself to another and connecting spiritually on a soulful level. I believe in acknowledging the sensitivity of your loved one’s heart, to be unafraid to share your vulnerabilities, to know it is okay to say you’re sorry and start anew. Intimacy is embracing your friend’s soul by allowing them to see yours and to realize it is okay to share.
Intimacy is to reveal yourself, to live unafraid discovering a higher version of who you are and discovering the virtues of those you embrace.
Intimacy with God is very much the same. He seeks to have prolonged times of communion with us, and even more so He seeks His presence to spill over throughout our days as a soulful connection into our hearts and minds. If you struggle with a certain area in your life and need to know His thoughts upon the matter, find a scripture befitting the need, embrace His word and seek His authority. Suddenly your desires will change, and you will find yourself in a new place of communion, seeking God first, longing for Him and needing Him in a way when the remainder of the world is not enough.
We embrace our intimacy with Him through prayers. He wants to hear our screams just as He listened to David. He is always listening, always caring, always loving. We may not always momentarily understand the consequences of our sin or the impact we have upon others or they us. But He knows. He seeks our praise, adoration, longs for our confessions, loves to hear how thankful we are for His grace and the gifts He bestows, and of course He daily listens to our needs, wants and desires.
Sometimes we scream out when it just seems He is not even listening, and in our anguish we scream and scream, and finally breakdown and we cry. We cry as we selfishly acknowledge He is here, present in this very moment. Jesus cares, He loves, He has us in His arms and He knows.
Intimacy is to be unafraid to share God’s word and pray with your friend. It is okay to realize we are here in this moment to truly love one another. The world’s view is so skewed, we all act so timid, so sheepishly when it comes to recognizing we are to love each other. It is absolutely not a sin to say to your friend, “I love you!” Who are the fools in the world? The fools in the world are those afraid to reveal themselves, closed up in private world, hiding themselves behind a veil of protection for the sake of self-preservation. They fail to recognize in their private garden without true intimacy there is no real sunshine or cool rain and they deprive themselves of bounties of love. These are the same who do not know truly how to forgive and in their lacking, they endlessly run from one to another. If they would just seek help, if they would acknowledge it is okay to be helped then maybe with great adulation, their veils will be dropped and they can finally really live and really love. And as the warmth of a new sun shines down upon them, maybe discover…. you. And finally know without question or need of further evidence how real you truly are. And in this knowledge discover not so much you were right, but how much you truly love. Real intimacy is not to question. Real intimacy is to connect and love endlessly.
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