Friday, December 9, 2016

Intimacy

God offered direct relationship - intimacy - with the people on Mount Sinai, but they refused and instead Moses descended the mountain with a heavy list of commands.

Rules and commands are never needed when there is intimacy. Intimacy, a true inner knowing of someone, eliminates the need for externals - eliminates all the distrust of legal contracts and commands. Good marriages don't need a list of do's and don'ts, they are based on mutual love. A formal marriage contract is unneeded, irrelevant. It's of the heart, not the pen. I don't know any couples who need to hang marriage contracts on the wall of their home as a reminder of what they are supposed to do as husband and wife. Likewise, divorce papers - externals - are never drafted until after love - intimacy - is lost.

Today, 3500 years later, people still debate the validity of Old Covenant law - ancient externals - in light of Jesus Christ breathing His Spirit - present day internals - into our hearts. The answer is simple.

Have you accepted God's offer of intimacy, or not? If not, you will always feel condemned by the externals. If yes, then get out from under the slavery of those heavy stone tablets and descend the mountain as a son.

"But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive adoption to sonship. Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir." - Gal. 4:4-7

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