Intimacy Lyrics by Trip Lee

It’s way too many times, I’m staying off on the grind
In other areas and I bury You in my mind
Then my life starts getting terrible, scarier and I find
Myself trying to get near to You, but You was here all the time
But I was having my share of affairs with things You designed
Kind of like a bad marriage, it’s scary it’s like I’m blind
And I’m praying You’d help me, hold me, and make me focus
I know that when I’m lacking You I’m more than hopeless
Mold this wicked heart to delight in Your precious person
Fighting, confessing, searching for Christ and lessons for learning
It ain’t even nothing good in me that I might show You
But I can see that eternal life’s that I might know You
I want to know You, be close to the God who saved me
And raised me, I pray we can be much closer
And I- I can embrace the beautiful life that You gave me
I count it all loss, Lord, that I might know ya

There’s a longing for Your love
Not just a moment, intimate touch
There’s a longing for Your love
Not just a moment, intimate touch

I’m longing for Your endless love
The knowledge of who You are
The truth that lies within Your Word
Show my heart who You are”

God is so good! It is such a beautiful gift to have the promise of God, who knows everything about me and still loves me. It is mind boggling to think that as he created the universe he knew the day that I would take my first breath.  The lyrics from the song above really impacted me  and brought on a bout of tears . I couldn’t help it because the lyrics reflected something that my heart feels. I long for God’s love! Even as my heart longs for him it is distracted by other things and tries to find other ways to fill that longing. I thought of Psalm 139 and how grateful it makes me to know that God has placed it in the Bible for us to read and reflect on. It was written by a man who was deeply flawed but divinely used by God, and serves a reminder to me that though I am ” prone to wander” his love for me NEVER changes. He knows me better than I know myself.

       ”O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise;you perceive my thoughts from afar.You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD.” Ps.139:1-3

I love these verses because they remind me of how connected God is to me. Even if I were to try to hide anything it just isn’t possible. There is a freedom in knowing this. At least for me, it is freedom to know that despite my shortcomings, for they are many, he has a deep love for me. Praise God for his steadfast love:)