Intimacy
connotes familiarity and closeness. It
involves our deepest nature, and it is marked by a warm friendship developed
through long association. In order for
us to become intimate with another, we must find in him or her a true confidant
-- one in whom we can safely confide our secrets.
What
are the characteristics of such a true friend?
Most of us look for someone we respect as wise and just; one we can
trust implicitly; one we feel safe and secure with; one who will respond to us,
help us in the right way, and be available whenever we want to share. True confidants are rare, and fortunate are
those who have one.
There
is One who meets these criteria perfectly: the Keeper of souls who never
sleeps, who calls us into fellowship -- "Call to Me, and I will answer
you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know"
(Jeremiah 33:3). The marvelous
affirmation of the psalmists is that the Creator of the vast universe is also
our intimate Confidant.
--
Cynthia Heald in Intimacy with God
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