Intimacy with God can be confusing. We often think of a
relationship among us humans on how to relate to what
this might mean, and rightly so. A relationship starts with basic facts.
Important facts, but maybe only the highlights of events and emotions. The journey continues and a deep desire for
deeper causes the relationship to honor each other with greater than surface
information.
For relationship to grow, there is a call, a
beckoning of hearts to the inner dare for a challenge. The secrets one holds
far away from all others. The good, bad
and ugly. The questions too hard. The break down of walls built from as far back as your mind allows
memory. A deeper relationship screams for a chance to be life, as the death of
secrets fall to their exposure.
Intimacy enters the secret place. Not just
the pretty but the complete package. Now… we have become one. Weeping and/or
dancing, my hiding is over. Submitting (sharing oneself, not obedience to their laws - that must come under God's Love) is
the beginning of intimacy. Who am I gets a workout. The outcome or the results
of this act is always yet to be seen. Intimacy is not foreknowledge, but great
knowledge to be expected and experienced (who I am and who they are). New and always like the
first time… inexperienced and yet delighted in the mystery of it all.
So now marriage takes on completely a sacred intimacy
unavailable to anyone else. My secret place goes even deeper. I share my body at all cost. I hold back
nothing and allow my husband to complete an exploration. Questions and answers
add delight as this journey wears intimacy as the covering God wanted to guide
me to... Him and I.
Dare to open such intimacy? Exposure through submitting oneself
is a great risk. So why do it? Only through Christ’s example of His Father and
being His Son is the answer to this. Only after understanding that any
submission outside of Christ is not only never asked of us but dangerous
consequences will occur. Intimacy
outside God’s realm is giving a person or people the right to write your life
under their judgement instead of God’s Love. It’s harsh and deadly.
Intimacy
through submitting (myself) to another by understanding that dwelling in the
Secret Place of the Most High, I have no judgement. I am abiding under the
Shadow of the Almighty (Ps 91).
