Lesson 19 Washing at the Cross: Saved for Intimacy
Questions 6 and 7
What you and I were looking for in pornography, self-gratification and sexual impurity we will find in our relationship with Jesus because God created and saved us for real and eternal intimacy with Himself.
The only thing that prevented the experience of this intimacy is sin and impurity, and now that the Spirit of God is working in you to remove it, get ready! Be prepared! God intends His Spirit to come to you and fill you up with love so that you can find a passion and an intimacy, a closeness and a oneness with Jesus like you’ve never known (see Ephesians 3:19). It may, at times, blow your mind!
One of the things my wife, Jody, emphasizes to spouses in the A United Front course is that a wife should respond in a positive way to her husband’s desire for intimacy. She should receive the love he desires to give her.
And so as we think about intimacy today, have you been open to Christ and the love He wants to share with you? Are you responding to Him as He appeals to you to spend time with Him, get close to Him and enjoy intimacy with Him?
Question 6. If you now understand that God saved you for this kind of joyful intimacy and that Jesus is working in you to remove the impurity that prevented it, will you now consciously seek to receive all the love that Jesus wants to pour into you?
Question 7. What did you learn, or of what were you reminded today?
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