God Wired Us For Intimacy
Chapter 2 [CREATION]
"and the man became a living creature"
"the Lord God planted a garden in Eden" "and there he put the man whom he had formed"
"and the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed" WHOA! COOL! HOLD ON TO YOUR SEAT! GOD'S WORD IS SO EXCITING. TRUTH MATTERS. SHAME= [SELF HATRED AT MY EXPENSE]. JESUS HOLDS THE KEY TO YOUR FREEDOM FROM THE SHAME CYCLE, SIS.
Chapter 3 [THE FALL]
"And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"
"Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived [The Deceiver. Father of Lies.] me, and I ate."
T or F : I desire to be fully known and fully loved. To be "naked" and unashamed.
Personally, I believe that all of humanity holds this desire.
We are born physically attached to our mothers. That connection is quickly severed.
I believe that we are wired for intimacy.
INTIMACY (In-to-me-you-see). It's not just sex, though He purposefully designed us as sexual beings.
God designed us for a true and authentic connection. A close ("walking in the garden in the cool of the day") relationship, with Him.
Our Creator is a God of high order [As evidenced by YOU, Beautiful Sister. Nature/Science/etc.]
Our Maker wonderfully created us complex human beings (engines) to be fueled by HIM (gasoline), alone. (Analogy borrowed from C.S. Lewis, in Mere Christianity)
Psalm 139:13,14 "For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well."
According to John Piper, the essence of evil is the failure to be fully satisfied in God, alone. The evil that transpired in the Garden of Eden (and in my own personal failures today) was the loss of a taste for God and the preference for [other/____fill in your blank___] rather than God Himself.
The Potter gave us His Word, the Bible, which tells us that
Jeremiah 2:13
"my people have committed two evils:
they have forsaken me,
the fountain of living waters,
and hewed out cisterns for themselves,
broken cisterns that can hold no water."
GOD IS THE FOUNTAIN OF LIVING WATERS
ANYTHING OTHER THAN GOD HIMSELF [riches. fame. self-reliance +] is a broken cistern that can hold no water.
Genesis 3:9 "But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"
He is calling to you today, Sweet Sister, with the same question. Contrary to what The Enemy would have you believe (SHAME), God calls us without a hint of condemnation in his voice. His tone is one of compassion, a sound exuding mercy and grace. He invites you to be fully seen [yes! gloriously naked!], fully known [no more filters!] AND fully loved. He is calling you into an intimate relationship with Him. What will your answer be?
Love,
Your Satisfied (With Jesus) Sister
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