Intimacy that nourish our lives
The true setting to understand intimacy is marriage. In marriage, man and woman enters into a covenant to offer themselves as a gift to each other. We enter into a physical, emotional, social, intellectual and spiritual intimacy. But since we are 2 equals looking to the other for our own fulfillment with insufficient resources to share, we fall short of a perfect intimacy in all these areas. We ought to look to God to nourish this intimacy. Marital intimacy foreshadows our ultimate intimacy with God in the life to come. God reduced himself to our level in the person of Jesus Christ in order to take us beyond the physical, social, emotional and intellectual realms to connect with Him in spirit. Jesus said you will worship God in Truth and spirit . Truth is Jesus Himself and the Spirit is the Holy Spirit. It is through the merit of Jesus Christ's life, death and resurrection that we are made righteous to present our self in the presence of God. It is the Holy Spirit who interc...