The safest place for a single is in intimacy with God. Intimacy with God through the Holy Spirit, his word and other believers who are after God’s heart.
I can recall the maturity that has taken place in me since I was younger. I am a Daddy’s girl. Meaning, I see God as my daddy. I see God as my covering, and my protection. There is a little girl in me that gets excited to go into my God’s presence knowing that he is there to listen to me, comfort me, and to be my confidant and friend. However there are times when the Lord will hide himself and it seems as if he is not there.
In those times, I don’t feel him like I used to. I used to sort of panic during those times. I would get discouraged and begin to open the door to other stuff. Stuff like unhealthy men being in my life. One time, I strait up told God that I was talking to a gentlemen because I did not feel him near.
Not only was I going through this, but I found that some of the girls that God had sent to me to mentor were going through the same thing. We would get caught up in relationships with men who weren’t worthy of us for a lack of intimacy with God. However, the Lord began to teach me.
He said to walk by faith in those times when I did not feel him near. Faith is the proof of what we believe God for; the evidence of things unseen. Faith requires action because faith without works is dead.
Now that I am older and more mature, I no longer look to other things or people to have that intimacy, that safe place, that satisfaction that I can only find in the Lord. Instead, I look to the Lord even more diligently through faith and taking steps of action.
Recently, my consistent prayer time with the Lord has not been the same. There has been a shift where it isn’t as easy for the Lord to take up in my prayer and just flow. Therefore, I have to do something different. I have to become even more consistent in seeking God as I walk by faith.
As an older adult, I take that as my invitation to seek God even more until I find him. Instead of just praying and reading at my regular prayer time, now I am praying at that prayer time plus an additional prayer time that includes laying before the Lord.
On top of that, I continue to pray small prayers through out the day such as God prepare me to hear you and follow you. Increase my hunger and thirst for you etc. If we are not intentional about intimacy with God, We will be intentional about intimacy with something or someone which often isn’t healthy.
Truly, the safest place for a single is in intimacy with God. Intimacy with God is the first relationship that we must become successful at or else the rest of our relationships will be a roller coaster of relationships that often end in a train wreck.
God hides himself to keep the relationship fresh, exciting, and new; not so that we can entertain ourselves with idols that cannot satisfy.
Truly you are a God who has been hiding himself, the God and Savior of Israel. All the makers of idols will be put to shame and disgraced; they will go off into disgrace together. But Israel will be saved by the Lord with an everlasting salvation;
you will never be put to shame or disgraced,to ages everlasting. Isaiah 45:15-17 (NIV)
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