True Intimacy

Can we hope to experience true intimacy with God?  When we talk about intimacy we are usually referring to a close, familiar, protective, loving relationship between two persons. 

Jesus had this type of relationship with His Father and showed it by choosing to be obedient to Him in all His ways.  Jesus often spoke of the works He was doing and said that He was simply doing what the Father had given Him to do.

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.

Philippians 2:5-7

Our Heavenly Father desires to have an intimate relationship with us.  At one time, in the cool of the evening, humans walked with God in the Garden of Eden.  However, the intimate relationship they had with God was severed by their listening to the lies of the evil serpent and then choosing to disobey God’s instructions.  How many of us have ruined our relationships by listening to the deceiver and disobeying the commandments of God?

When we believe that Jesus took all our sins to the cross and paid the penalty for them, our intimate relationship with God is restored.  We are born again into a new life with our Heavenly Father who is extravagant in His love and care for us. 

As we practice God’s principles in all our affairs, we grow to be more like Jesus and experience the satisfying intimacy with our Heavenly Father that He showed us was possible.

Heavenly Father, we want to be restored that life where we live in loving intimacy with You.  Help us to take time to be with You, to listen to You, to share life – the good and the challenging, the beautiful as well as the painful.   

Please help us to be more like Jesus, to set aside our own agenda, to listen for Your voice, to seek Your heart and will every day, and to follow Your principles for living life to the full. Amen