Intimacy with God
Southeast Christian Church When we think about drawing close to God and growing a deeper relationship with him, it’s important for us to notice the heart posture that we need to have. It's not a heart that's walled up or closed off, where we aren’t truthful and vulnerable. It's a heart that's sincere, open, and bears everything before God, including our fears, our doubts, our insecurities, our worries, and the things that keep us up at night. Why? Because we trust that he can handle it, and he wants us to bring them to him. While he already knows everything going on in our heads and hearts, he yearns for us to talk to him about it and to rest our minds knowing he has everything under control.
However, there’s a problem. We live in a world that has oftentimes given us harmful and painful views of God that directly affect our ability to step into intimacy with him. Many of us have struggled with these views throughout our lives. Things like this: God is just an angry old man in the sky, or that he's a cold-hearted judge, or that he's completely distant and disconnected from this world. Or he's an impersonal force that we can tap into sometimes, but there's no personal relationship. But regardless of what view the world puts forward of who God is, our anchor, our standard, and what we have to hold onto is who Jesus says our God is. Our God's arms are open wide beckoning in begging his children, his people, to come back to him.
Discussion/Reflection Questions: Do you feel that you can be open and vulnerable in your conversations with God? Why or why not?
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