Intimacy

How do you teach a single person about intimacy?  Every sermon I hear teaches it in the context of marriage.  I don’t understand it from that view point.  It’s very third person when speaking in those terms.  I have my ideas, my opinions, and my observations about marriage, but when it comes down to it, I don’t know what it looks like because I’ve never been married.  Well God wants me, intimately, for Himself.  He’s got his work cut out for him; teaching me about intimacy.  He’s showing me that He cares SO much that He’s orchestrated events in my life to get me to come to Him intimately.  I’ve never had anyone go to so much trouble for me!  His word says that His sheep hear his voice and know him.  That’s intimacy, when your loved one calls from through a crowded room and you recognize his voice.  Or when they touch your hand and without looking you know its them.  God desires this from me…from us!  I’m re-learning his voice as He’s talking to me differently now then he used to.  He used to use very simple words, one word here, one word there…and now it’s phrases and questions.  It’s kinda of like His voice has changed and he’s getting me used to hearing the new one…only I know it’s not his voice that has changed, it’s my heart.  I’m being trusted with more, so I’ve got to learn to hear differently, in new ways.  Hearing the heartbeat of God is easy when you’re a baby because that’s all babies know is the heartbeat of their parent.  But as a grown-up life gets in the way.  Getting through all that “stuff” to get back to the heartbeat of my Father isn’t as easy as it used to be.  He’s teaching me rest!  And through this divine stillness, I find intimacy.  It’s amazing to know that even though I don’t know the intimacy of marriage, I know the author of intimacy and DO know him better because of it!