Intimacy can only be experienced when we are willing to be completely exposed. When we feel completely safe in the arms of love, we share our best-kept secrets and desires. When this happens, both lovers deepen and expand, they become larger than they ever were.
Our infinite God seeks and desires intimacy with our human soul. Once we experience intimacy with God, only the intimate language of lovers can describe what goes on for us: mystery, tenderness, singularity, specialness, nakedness, risk, ecstasy, incessant longing, and even suffering.
An admission of emptiness is the ultimate safety net for love. The desire for intimacy creates hunger and exposes emptiness. In fact, satisfied desire increases the desire for more. The saints and mystics discovered this wondrous secret, and without a doubt “God’s secret, in which all the jewels of wisdom and knowledge are hidden” (Colossians 2:3).
The secret becomes unhidden when we stop hiding—from God, from ourselves, and from our earthly beloved. True intimacy risks self-disclosure and is the way that love is exchanged.
Colossians 2:3 “In him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”
