Wednesday, June 5, 2013

OUR INTIMATE CONFIDANT

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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