Can we be Intimate lovers...

My life is beginning to take form; what once was a jumble of inconsistency and soluble ideas, dissolving at the first sign of insecurity and fear, has become a being filled with dreams beyond capability. I have grown to possess an insoluble confidence, which each has been created and destined to behold since the beginning of time. I am filled with peace beyond recognition which has stilled my mind and has set me free from my own self inflicted expectations. I have been released to live in a way that empowers others to live freely, lacking no good thing because of my willingness to open up the gates to my soul; which is my heart. The journey is the process of willingness to keep the gates open even in the midst of pain and fear.

We were created with hidden keys that unlock treasures in others. Yet we must learn to allow God to unlock our greatest source of treasure first; which is our hearts. We must have eyes to see and ears to hear that we might be directed to the treasures the Lord desires to reveal, it is part of our destiny to become revealers of beauty. As a bridegroom reveals himself, His gaze is entirely upon His bride who is revealed in a beauty that captivates Him. “Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in.”ps. In a world that does not truly understand the meaning of intimacy, we are called to release others into a knowledge of what it means to be intimate with our God, with our family and with our friends. This kind of laid down, open love releases others into a freedom and comfort to open up their gates; allowing the doors that have shut their hearts to once again be opened to light, to life and to love, the source of which is all from our beautiful King of glory.

I am learning the depth of this word; intimacy, and the reality of the lack of knowledge the world truly has regarding intimacy. Do we love with transparency; naked so to speak, all masks down at the foot of the floor that we stand. Allowing the masks of insecurity, fear, control, doubt, success, pride, weakness, etc. lay on the ground before others to see who we really are beneath the words and clothes that we hide behind. Do we have the ability to see the beauty behind the masks of society, culture and differing beliefs; or are we to closed at the heart to let another in who may be different, who may cause us to grip “our image’s “even tighter than before.
If only we could learn to love intimately, to possess a heart that craves unity, that yearns to empower others. If only we truly understood what the bible meant when it said,” …the last shall be first and the first shall be last…” If only we understood what the bible meant when it said, “For as the body is one and has many members, but all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also is Christ. 1cor or even the idea that…“Now in the multitude of those who believed they were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.”

It is interesting to me as I think back on my life and the firm grip I had on my possessions; truly out of my need to have control over myself and to protect my “image”. The entire time I was hiding my true feelings; which was a deep desire that consumed me to be set apart and individual, being like no other, yet in that place I was like every other. More than ever I have been thinking about how much I want and how unsatisfied I am at times; I want to learn to be possessed by the scriptures to the point that I am satisfied more in giving and pouring myself out. Lay up your treasure in heaven, for it is the only everlasting gift you can own.