Intimacy

Jesus wants all.

He does not just want a small corner of my heart or life.

He wants every piece of my heart and life to be fully vested in Him and His callings!

So how...

How do I create what He desires to create with me-intimacy?

Intimacy, when I consider it with regard to the deepest intimacy I have ever experienced, would be something like the context of my marriage.

Intimacy does not just happen on its own.

Intimacy is created. It is developed within a context of deep and abiding love. It occurs within the context of trust. It is created within the context of wishing to express trust and love.

Intimacy is woven deeply within the contexts of a Sacred unity. A oneness that is treasured and kept sacred. Sacred through uniqueness, through time devoted, through communication, through closeness, through vulnerability, enjoyment and pleasure and through the ability to trust ones devotion, ones motives, ones love.

How do we create this type of relationship with God, with Christ, with the Holy Spirit?

We have to cultivate a heart filled with trust.

The only way to do that is to KNOW God better.

The only way to do that is to READ His Word and Pray.

I desire intimacy with God.

But sometimes that also, for me, means much surrender and sacrifice. It often, for me, means giving up things I wish I could just involve myself in without care or cause for pause.

But because I desire to create intimacy with Christ, I have to pause and reflect often on the things I involve myself with or place before myself. Not always because something is "bad" but rather, because Jesus is "best" and instead of allowing myself to be distracted, sidetracked or drift slowly away I have to keep my heart single focused.

The single focus of an intimate relationship is eyes on that person alone. Again, I think of my marriage. Could you imagine desiring intimacy with your spouse and coming to realize all along their desire for intimacy was with someone else? How deeply hurt, confused, betrayed and wounded would you feel?

This is how God feels when we allow ourselves to be swayed by other loves. When our devotion is split between Him and the five other things we consider highly desirable and valuable.

I don't want my spouse to desire others to be intimate with.

I don't think God wants my heart divided either.

Yet sometimes, if I am honest, it is So difficult to be sold out-eyes set-single minded for my Jesus.

I have to be willing to say God is first!

If I desire intimacy with God, then I have to cultivate our relationship, water it, till the garden, plant the seeds, and water it!

And then, even when doubts creep in, I must CHOOSE to trust and believe the best in God!

Trust!

God, please develop deeper trust within our hearts that we might cultivate and develop an intimacy with You that is fulfilling, lasting and special! You are our love, our first love, the only love that satisfies! Thank You! I love you so much God! Please grow my love deeper still and help me continue laying aside the things of this world that wish to steal away my intimacy with You! You're worth the sacrifices! Praise you God for Your mighty love! In Jesus name, amen!

Blessings friends,

Abi