FROM THE DESK OF PASTOR WILL: Getting Intimate with God

[Rev. William Griffith]

There is a story I want to share with you. Marsha Kaitz, a professor of psychology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, did a trial experiment to see how well mothers knew their babies. According to the Associated Press, the forty-six mothers chosen for the trial had all given birth in the previous five to seventy-nine hours. Each mother had breast-fed her own child.

Each mother was blindfolded and then asked to identify which of the three sleeping babies in front of them was her own. Nearly seventy percent of the mothers accurately and correctly chose their own child. Most of the mothers said they knew their baby by the texture or temperature of the infant's hand. The women apparently learned the identifying features during their routine contact, said Kaitz, because they weren't allowed to study their babies in anyway to prepare for the test.

As well as mothers know their babies, think of how much more God knows us. He desires to be intimate with us as His children, to shower us with His love and attention.  Nothing in the human condition can prepare us to fathom the abundance of love that awaits us in God. It is for this reason that God became man in the form of Jesus of Nazareth. For believers and followers of Christ, the intimacy we are meant to experience is awesome and, more often than not, overwhelming in a positive way. For those who see Jesus as just a prophet, rabbi or revolutionary, the love Jesus had for believer and unbeliever alike brought God's love to the realm of the human experience.

To be intimate with God is to know God's love. I am always amazed when I witness so many in our world rejecting the very thing our world needs the most; an abundance of love.

-Pastor William Griffith

 Evangel Pacific Ministries