The Process of Intimacy: From the Inside Out

  We our fixated on what we can see, feel, taste and touch. Our senses cry out for attention and we become slaves of our appetites. The power of temptation lies in the deception that once we satisfy our immediate desire (hunger, lust, thirst etc..) we will be at peace. Funny thing about sensual desire without the guidance and control of our inner selves (Spiritual).... its NEVER satisfied.

Because of sin, our ability to control desire has been damaged beyond self repair. We need an appetite/Desire SAVIOR. Our soul needs to be cleansed and reborn just as much as our Spirit. You must be born again is a command that needs to be applied in our hearts, minds, souls and bodies. If we are not yielding every dimension of ourselves, we are walking relational time bombs ready to go off at the worst possible moments (often as we approach true intimacy).
We live in a time when people are diagnosed as commitment phobic. Books have been written and movies scripted with titles like, "He's just not that into you". What we are seeing is people recognize a timing device inside of them attached to a soulish bomb that they desperately don't want to go off... no one wants to see themselves splattered all over someone else.... we are afraid. When we look in the mirror and compare the images of who we think we are compared to the societal "norm", we become afraid and disillusioned.. no amount of gym workout time can ever substitute for what God can do as you receive his unconditional love and bask in his acceptance of you.... as you are. You and I were NEVER meant to live in relationships with others apart from an ongoing, vital & intimate relationship with God. If he is not first in your relational priorities, I assure you, sin is crouching at the door of your life.

The process of healthy and satisfying intimacy begins on the inside and works itself outward.  When your heart is at rest and satisfied in its relationship with God you are positioned at the starting line of a great life of intimacy and love.
Isaiah 55 proclaims this, "Come all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not SATISFY? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of fare. Give ear and come to me; hear me, that your soul may live....

You can't buy intimacy, you can't become someone else to make others love you.... intimacy begins and ends at the feet of a loving Savior..... if you're hurting today because of enslaving yourself to bread that can never satisfy you... God is NOT condemning you.... he knows about desire .... he created it and wants to give you something that will yield everlasting satisfaction and bring healing to your heart, mind, soul and body.... the road to healthy and pure intimacy can begin afresh today.... I am praying with you for healing, hope and a life of love to be yours both now and forever!

More to come.....