We often view intimacy as a physical matter. That’s because we are physical beings and what words can’t interpret, a touch or close contact may.
Connection matters. It’s why babies are soothed when rocked or patted and why a child runs and looks forward to a big happy hug into daddy or mommy’s arms. It’s why a kiss is more than just the pressing of lips, it’s personal and complex. It’s the meaning that exists behind the whisper and the extent someone goes into action for to hold your heart in the utmost care.
IN LOVE
Remember the time or times you fell in love? It was more than just some caring affections. You could talk and talk from one conversation to the next with no effort because there was some sort of deep understanding that was drawing you closer. There was a, “You feel it too” connection in the back of each other’s minds that made you both realize these personal feelings were exclusive to just the two of you.
In true intimacy, walls come down, hearts open, and trust is present. If you’ve never experienced it, you are missing out. Intimacy also connects where we’re most vulnerable. It captivates all our senses to surrender completely in trust. These beautiful, tangible moments are highlights in our relationships, aren’t they? They remind us of an experience we have, had or when someone was just there…
IT GETS PERSONAL
When we are intimate with anybody, we have come to know them on a personal or private level. We tune in and listen to their sensitivities and we even work to win their hearts.
God created intimacy and desires that we have an intimate relationship with Him first. And that we might seek, search, call, listen and hear Him, while He remains compassionate, ever-present, loving, and cares about the minute details of our existence. This is what becoming a two-way, connected relationship is, shared .
Sharing Our Hearts
Jeremiah 29:13 NIV- You will seek and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Sharing Personal Revelation
Jeremiah 33:3 NIV- Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
Sharing Familiar Conversation
John 10:27-30 NIV-My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Intimacy Pays Attention To the Details
Psalm 139: 2-3 NIV- You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
CREATING SPACE
Anytime we are no longer tuned into our loved one’s personal or private matters, where their concerns are deeply ours, we create a space in the intimacy we had.
We don’t use intimacy with just anybody. It usually has to be someone very special to us. Intimacy takes trust. So once you’ve gotten close by sharing intimacy and then create great space for people, it can be devastating. The reason being is because if intimacy was ever meaningful or memorable to begin with, then when distance prevails, memorable seems long forgotten or as if it were never important.
GOD CALLING US BACK TO INTIMACY
God is so patient with His love for us. You’ll also often see passages of Him reminding man to “Come back” “Come to Me” and “Return to Me”. He knows that this intimacy with Him will develop our faith and open our eyes to a love that will transform our heart for Him, each other and for others. He also loves us enough to call us with urgency. It matters that we come close enough to know to seek the gift of salvation from His son Jesus while we are still living. And also to know that this gift to us is as near as our decision to confess with our heart that He Lord and believing He rose again.
We hear this, we believe this and feel this…..through intimacy.
Isaiah 55:6-8 NIV-Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
