Intimacy

Intimacy

How is it possible to have intimacy with God?

God’s Response

I will be with you, and I will protect you wherever you go. . . . I will be with you constantly until I have finished giving you everything I have promised. Genesis 28:15

“In that coming day,” says the LORD, “you will call me ‘my husband’ instead of ‘my master.’ . . . I will make you my wife forever, showing you righteousness and justice, unfailing love and compassion.” Hosea 2:16, 19

To share intimacy means to be completely vulnerable to someone, to know fully and be fully known. Intimacy occurs in only the most personal relationships. We often resist being vulnerable to God about our sins, especially the ones we don’t want to give up, but intimacy requires full disclosure, not hiding or covering up. When we admit and confess our sin, seek forgiveness, and commit ourselves to obeying God, our relationship with God is restored and we can know him in a truly intimate way. God is a personal being who created people for the purpose of intimacy with himself. When you respond and accept his love, he becomes closer than a brother or even a spouse.

God’s Promise

The LORD your God has arrived to live among you. . . . He will exult over you by singing a happy song. Zephaniah 3:17