Godly intimacy has enemies. Its greatest enemy is found in life itself. Life has needs and wants and they continually and incessantly cry out for our attention and affection. Ironically, life wants to create intimacy with whatever satiates its needs and wants. I call this the survival syndrome the Bible calls it idolatry.
We weren’t created to just survive we were created to thrive. Thriving means more than just staying alive, it means being fruitful. Surviving is being a consumer, thriving is being a producer. Producing means being fruitful, and fruitfulness is impossible without intimacy.
In order to achieve purposeful Biblical living, we must graduate from a consumer mindset to a producer mindset. Our largest hurdles in achieving this are our needs and wants. They persistently want more and more and more… And by doing so, they pull us away from our intimacy with God, thus killing our ability to produce. It’s a vicious cycle indeed.
Tough choices have to be made.
Let’s look at Jesus as our example. What did the SON of GOD do while incarnated on earth? He ignored the needs and wants of life and fought for His intimacy with God. He knew where His source came from. He knew that His purpose was to be fruitful, therefore, thriving in everything He did. He was able to slay the enemies of needs and wants by pulling away from its cries and lures and turning to the one who provides all – the source Himself. “Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed” (Mark 1:35).
Fight for your intimacy with the Holy Spirit. Be a producer. Don’t just survive… THRIVE! He’s waiting on you!
