Intimacy: shared moments with God

Our Heavenly Father puts “shared moments” in our lives.  Beautiful days are His creation, to share with His created beings.  His role as Creator has much more to do with our intimacy with God than we think.

When we garden, we may find a newt.  When we walk our dog, we see His created garden all around us.  God scatters the shared moments throughout our days and not just during our quite times with Him.  He loves to delight Man, the object of His great affection.

Intimacy with God is through what we see as well as what we hear.  Sometimes we spend our quiet times listening because we believe that what we hear is of most importance.  But seeing is just as valid, and what God wants to share with us can be visual as well as auditory.   God often takes time during our daily routines to enjoy our company, as well as teaching us spiritual lessons through the physical things we experience.  It is from our shared moments of intimacy that our most fruitful lessons come.

Jesus spoke about lack of intimacy to the people of His time, quoting that “they honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” (Mt 15:8)  Lacking intimacy with God caused distance from Him, and therefore the leaders did not know what to teach the people (Mt 15:9).  The fruit of missing God’s shared moments in our personal life will be that we bear no fruit in the lives of others, and our teachings will not further the kingdom of God. 

If we do not practice hearing and seeing our Creator in our everyday walk, we may miss His divine visitations in our lives. Because the people of Jesus’ time did not see, or recognize Him as their Savior, they did not understand what He shared with them. “They may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding . . .” (Mk 4:12).  God the Creator had sent His Son to Mankind, but they were spiritually blind and deaf.  God sent His Son to a people He wanted to be intimate with, but they did not see that His love of them was what Jesus offered. 

Shared moments can be still small whispers, or glorious sky-filling sunsets.  God speaks to us in what we see and what we hear.  It can be a moment of personal intimacy, but may also result in a fruitful message to shares with others.  Today, let us see with eyes that perceive, and hear with ears that understand.  Our Creator has put moments to share with Him into our lives . . . and who could ask for more?