Intimacy with God

When I was young, I did not understand how one can be intimate with God when you cannot see Him. How can we become intimate with God? Let’s first take a look at the word intimate. The dictionary gives one of the meanings as having, involving or result from a close personal relationship. After reading this meaning, the question can be reworded as, “How can we have a close personal relationship with God?

Why do we have close personal relationship (or intimacy) with family and friends? Is it because we see them on a daily basis and spend a lot of time with them? The answer is yes. Therefore, intimacy with God is spending time with Him on a daily basis. Spending time with a person is getting to them. The only way we can get to know the Lord is to first spend time in His Word, the Holy Bible. We must always remember that God is a spirit and we first must believe that He exists. Hebrews 11:6, “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”

How can you spend time with family and friends when you believe that they do not exist? It’s impossible. You must first believe that they exist and then you spend time with them. The same is true with God. By faith, you choose to believe that He exists and then you spend time getting to know Him through His Word, the Holy Bible. This process causes you to develop a close personal relationship with Him; therefore, being intimate with Him. The Lord will reveal Himself to you through His Word. As you read and study His Word, you will see, through the Word, that the Father has given us a Helper. He is the Holy Spirit. He lives in us and is always with us. John 14:17, “Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.”

Let us welcome the Holy Spirit into our lives so that we can develop a close personal relationship with our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Shalom!