A Window into Intimacy
Intimacy is always about our relationship with God – it is a mirror
When I started really wrestling with what God wants for me and my marriage bed, this verse rocked my world.
Ephesians 5:31-32 –For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh. This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.
Becoming One in marriage is a picture of intimacy with Christ.
Intimacy in Marriage
This verse gave me a frame work to start measuring what I believed about sex. I began comparing all of my ideas about sex, against my relationship with God, and it turned a lot of things up side down. I soon realized, just because something is our natural tendency, doesn’t mean that’s how God wants things to stay. He wants us to stretch and grow and that takes trusting him. I’ve written a bunch or articles based on this concept in the Mirror of Intimacy Category but a couple of ideas that immediately come to mind are…