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Eugene Peterson asks in The Message Solo, "What would it look like for you to go one level deeper in intimacy with God?"
How does one go a level deeper? What are the levels? How does one know when they've moved up a level? Life isn't a game of Mario Bros.
My love for God is much like Job's was. It's peppered with hate. Sometimes I hate what God's putting me through, I hate Him. But I love Him more than anyone or anything. I hate that I hate Him, but I love Him so much, I don't understand any of this.
Is my love for God and relationship with Him in a deeper level now that I have experienced a love peppered with hate? How do I move up a level from that? I can't help it, that's the way I feel and I feel this way because of my experience.
How can anyone even ask a question like what would it look like if you went one level deeper in intimacy with God, unless you know what levels look like and you have something to compare your current level to?
I believe that God desires an honest intimacy with me, but I think that my negative emotions hurt him. Just like when Malcolm's angry and upset with me. It hurts me, but it doesn't stop me loving him, and I love that he can be so honest with me. I would hate it if he locked his emotions away from me, even if he had good intention of sustaining a happy level in our relationship. I feel that way with my relationship with my mum and best friends too, and it's the same with God, you know?
Real love is brutally honest.
And I believe that God is ultimate love, therefore, of course he wants an honest intimacy with us, and can handle me completely, even the negatives.
He made me. He'll love me no matter what. And I love that. Even though sometimes I hate Him. And now we've gone full circle back to, I don't understand it at all.
When we come closer to God, he shows us more of His heart, more of His heart. Maybe myh pain and hurt is a little bit of God's pain and hurt. Maybe I'm at that 'level' where God is showing me himself, letting me experience his heart, because we are just that close. I don't know.
God please be with those who are hurting. Please give them comfort and peace. I ask this so often, I feel stupid repeating the same questions, same requests. But we have to continuously buy bread and milk, to survive. We have to ask for the same things from God because there's a constant need for it. There's always people hurting. It just seems like it's more now than I have ever experienced before.
God, please heal people. Give them peace, give them comfort. Let them know it's you. Amen.
I feel so sick it's unreal. Every day it just gets worse. This does not make me happy at all.
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