I was reading Ephesians today, and a thought hit me. God wants to be known. He wants us to know him.
People realize this and respond to it by saying “ah, I should study the attributes of God”. I say, that this is all well and good, but it is knowing about God, not knowing God. I can know all the attributes of a person, but what does that make me? A psychiatrist? A stalker? It doesn’t mean that I know that the person, that would imply relating with them on a more intimate level. By intimate, I don’t mean sex. Though, that is what is usually passed off as intimacy.
Intimacy is connecting with people, it is relating with people on a level of symbiosis. Now, when I say symbiosis, I don’t mean co-dependency, where you are nothing without them. I mean that with them, your weaknesses are covered and likewise for the others. It is relating on a level of trust and kindness that makes each person more themselves than they are otherwise. A sort of ‘chemical reaction’ occurs. Each person is thrust upward to new heights, and pulled up from depths.
In the end, this is what God wants for us and from us. He wants us to know Him, He wants us to know each other.
John 17:20 – 23
20 “My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, 21 that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one— 23 I in them and you in me—so that they may be brought to complete unity. Then the world will know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me,”
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