Thursday, April 26, 2007

yearn for you


Your relationship with God calls for the greatest measure of openness, nakedness possible. If you want to be truly intimate with Him, then transparency and surrender is a must. You must be willing to have every part given totally over to His control. The choice to compartmentalize parts of life is a mistake and it will hinder your journey. Total abandonment requires total trust. If you trust your Father more than you trust your senses, then surrender will come easy and naturally. What you see, feel, hear, taste and smell give us information so that we can make wise decisions, but cannot always be trusted completely. We must not lean on our own understanding, but Trust HIS WAYS. What seems right to us...is not always Gods way.
When true intimacy is found, you will find that it is your delight. It is delightful and where your joy is found and made complete. It becomes almost like a craving and the superficial is no longer satisfying. And yet, to achieve this kind of intimacy, there is a naked transparency and surrender that must take place. It even feels risky and yet, to not run after such a thing is even greater a risk. Our senses betray us and tell us that we will get hurt. They tell us to lean on our experience and not to trust-and so we don't and we miss out on God's greatest gift-Oneness, with Him and others.

And so, the choice is ours. To be fully known and loved. To risk and feel pain, but find intimacy. Or to play it safe and miss out on the joy of true love and intimacy, never finding our true delight or satisfaction. I don't want to lean on my own understanding, but run after Him as He sets my heart free to love. As I delight myself in HIM...He gives me MORE of HIM which is the desire of my heart. I am satisfied, while yearning for more.
ALL FOR YOU

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