Identity.
Intimacy. Integrity. The three most important Is in the human
experience.
We
can't live our true identity without intimacy with the Living God –
he's our creator and it's in those intimate lover-moments that he
whispers to our heart who we really are – who he created us to be.
We
can't live in intimacy with him without integrity. For long, at any
rate. He leans towards certain things and away from other things. If
we lean towards what he leans away from, eventually we will fall away
from each other. Then, as he slowly withdraws the sweetness of his
presence desperately longing for us to repent, without his intimacy
in our life, our sin traps us in a false identity.
But
Jesus died so his blood gives us power to overcome the sin that so
craftily pulls us away from him. We are free to lean toward what he
leans toward – the fruit of the spirit and holiness (ie,
integrity).
And
the pleasures of intimacy with him and worth more than all the sinful
desires of the world put together. Intimacy with the Lord is true
pleasure.
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