OH TO BE HELD IN HIS ARMS!!!
The word the Lord gave me about, His words: "Pure intimacy"! This began on July 14 and continued through Sunday July 18.
Our church on Sunday and Wednesday had been looking at intimacy with our Father, that spending time just us and Him, turning off everything that distracts us. My pastor compared it to a husband and wife relationship; how he and his wife spend time talking between the two of them in their private time, that they don't involve their children in.
But Jesus began to paint me a picture of the wife in relationship with her husband. This is a tangible physical relationship, (not sexual). There are many times a wife may need the nearness of her husband, times when she can't pray another word, she can't read another word or play another song, she needs her husband. In the privacy of their room and perhaps even in the midnight hours, that in her tears she will curl up next to her husband and say "Hold me", she doesn't need him to ask questions, she just needs him. For a wife this is how those moments feel, "she smells his aroma (not body odor) a smell that says 'that's my husband' best described as an aroma of love, she hears his heart beating as she lays against his chest 'that's his closeness' as she lays in his arms she feels the strength in his arms holding her she feels secure, comforted, resting and she begins to be calm, and if it is in the night she will drift off to sleep".
That is a physical reality with a lot of spiritual meaning, but we won't mention that as yet. BUT, there are many of us women who no longer have a husband to call on when we need them. Oh we can call and talk to a friend, or send a text but it isn't the same. Our family, our friends, our pastors can never replace that intimate moment we once had with our husbands.
For me I used to say "Jesus can I just sit at Your feet awhile and You talk to me"; but I don't know the exact date when a shift happened, but I found myself saying, especially in the middle of the night when I was awake, couldn't rest, tears and thoughts I couldn't tear down bombarding my mind. I couldn't pray, I couldn't read, I couldn't worship, I could barely breathe, and I would say "Jesus can you just hold me and talk to me for awhile."
And then I felt Him, His aroma of love, His heart resting against me, the strength in His arms that brought me such comfort, such peace, such security that I just began to rest. He begins to speak to me, oh He doesn't bring up all my sins, my failures, my screw ups, no He begins to show me by talking to me about particular scripture, scriptures that revealed my inner man to me. I don't know if I fell asleep while He was speaking or whether I was just so at rest, but I heard every word He said and I found comfort.
Again I heard "That is pure intimacy".
Now the heart of the matter; we are the bride of Christ, we are His wife and He, Jesus, is our Husband. The bride/wife of Christ includes ALL who are saved and born again, both young and old, male and female. That simply means that in Jesus WE take the position of a wife and HE is our Husband. See it!
Jesus says; "We, His bride, must put aside any preconceived ideas on what intimacy should look like". Each true child of God will have those moments that in their most private time with Jesus, we can only articulate these words, "Hold me, just talk to me"!
When king David brought the Ark of the Covenant (which represents the presence of God) back into Jerusalem, it is written that he took off his kingly robes and put on a linen ephod. It said he put on, that means it wasn't part of the king's garments, but it was part of the priest under garments a gown worn under their priestly garments. How is this significant to things. When we come into our Lord's presence we do not come in wearing our titles, our positions, our calling to be on display; No, we come in humbly needing and seeking only Him, not based on who we are but who He is.
Our relationship and our walk is based on how much time do we spend in intimacy with Jesus, not bringing our petitions but bringing in our heart of love for Him, our hunger for Him, our thirst for Him. In that time we ask "Lord reveal all that is in me that is hindering my walk with You". Then listen as He speaks.
I gave you two different looks at what the intimacy with our Lord Jesus is, 1. Is our private time when we remove all distractions to meet with our Lord a time of conversation where we both talk and listen 2. Those times in our storms that come on us when all we want and need is His arms wrapped around us, both are needed, both are pure intimacy.
Hope someone is helped by this.
