Intimacy with God

Into Me See.  Intimacy has been described as such and I believe that even for today it is fitting.  The bible tells us that God knows us. He is intimate with us. I looked at different definitions of this word so I can grasp what it means to say God is Intimate with us. One person defines it as being in each other's mind.  Another says it means close, loyal, faithful.  Yes, God is intimate with us.  He knows our thoughts.  He is faithful. He is close.  He is loyal. He is intimate. 

God sees into us.  He sees the core, like the inside of an apple.  He sees the good and the bad.  David marvelled at this saying, it is too much for him to even comprehend it all.

My friends, while God is initmate with us, I wonder if we in turn are intimate with Him.  You see, and I have heard it said before, initmacy is a two way interaction.  He has already made the first step.  From before time began His heart was for us.  Now I believe that he stretches his hands to us and says, won't you come? My eyes tear up as I can imagine Him saying "Talk to me. Just talk to me". (Yolanda Adams). No more hiding my friends. No more running away.  It is time to draw near to Him.  It is time to enhance; discover; seek out intimacy with God.

If you dont know where to start or even what to say, how about repeating the Psalmist.  It is a good place to begin the journey of intimacy with God:

Psalm 139 NIV (Biblegateway.com)

For the director of music. Of David. A psalm.

¹ You have searched me, Lord,
and you know me.
² You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
³ You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
⁴ Before a word is on my tongue
you, Lord, know it completely.
⁵ You hem me in behind and before,
and you lay your hand upon me.
⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.

⁷ Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
⁸ If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
⁹ If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
¹² even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

¹³ For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
¹⁴ I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
¹⁶ Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
¹⁷ How precious to me are your thoughts,^[a] God!
How vast is the sum of them!
¹⁸ Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand—
when I awake, I am still with you.

¹⁹ If only you, God, would slay the wicked!
Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty!
²⁰ They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.
²¹ Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord,
and abhor those who are in rebellion against you?
²² I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.
²³ Search me, God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
²⁴ See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.