Intimacy Leads to Fulfilment

UV 1586/10000 Intimacy Leads to Fulfilment
The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.

Zephaniah 3 v 17


The Lord God dwells in us and amongst us. He is capable and willing to save us. He rejoices in us as a woman delights in her precious jewels. He delights in us as much as a bridegroom delights in his bride. He rejoices when people repent and turn to Him for salvation as much as a shepherd rejoices on finding a lost sheep. He rejoices as much as a widow rejoices on finding her lost gold coin. We find our rest and fulfilment in His love. His love is so great that we cannot fully comprehend it with our human understanding. Our need is met in Him as a child lies weaned and satisfied in her mother’s arms. We will cease to have that constant and restless urge to prove ourselves to others for He accepts us as we are. The inner peace He gives us heals us of our ceaseless struggles and strife within us transforming us from being Jacob – a deceiver who wants to get ahead by our own devices to Israel- one who struggles with God out of doubt and distrust to being a true believer and beloved of God- one who surrenders oneself, lock, stock and barrel, past, present and future-eternal, spirit, mind and body to the Lord. He leads His beloved into Hephzibah- a land of milk and honey, of promises and delights. The barren land or parts of our lives like the barren womb of the aged Sarah will come alive as Beulah- a woman who is beautiful, wise, fruitful. Sarah herself thought that there are limits to what God can do and laughed at the very idea of her becoming Beulah, a fruitful woman. Anyone who reveres or fears and respects the Lord and hopes in the Lord and His Word moves from being marred to “married” to the might, power, love, grace and blessing of the Lord. To be married is to be joined at the hips or to be grafted to the true vine that is Jesus.


Scripture says that He beautifies the meek with His salvation. He glorifies us or makes us worthy of manifesting His glory, power and grace. His presence with us gives us access to all He is, His immense and infinite power. He never leaves us alone or forsaken. He is faithful and will never give us up or give up on us. We might fail Him occasionally or frequently but He will examine how He can help us or enable us to overcome our inherent weaknesses. We cannot understand the direction of our lives or understand even our own selves except in the light of His being. He is mighty but concurrently He is wonderful to us. He is our counsellor. He is the Everlasting Father unlike our earthly fathers who will perish one day and leave us. He will continue to treat us as children however old and mature we get. He will provide for us. He will protect us. He will fight for us. He will lift us up. He will guide us and teach us. He is the Prince of Peace and rules over us with peace. He gives us inner peace. He is able to do exceedingly more than we can think, imagine, ask. What we think, imagine and ask, He always does or grants several levels above that which we ask, think or imagine. He yanks us out of the orbit of our normal thought , imagination and desires. We transcend ourselves in Him.

The Lord celebrates and throws a party whenever a person repents and is saved. He does not hold our past against us. He blots out our past misdeeds. He gives us a clean slate to begin again. He will restore the years the locusts had eaten. He will prosper us in all our ways and give us abundant peace. He will give us a double portion of every blessing we enjoyed in the past. He will send us the latter rain of blessings. His anointing enables us to do that which He considers valuable. He will not let any of our words to fall to the ground in vain. He takes our thoughts, words and feelings seriously and respects our desires. We will be able to do that which is supernatural as naturally as we do the natural. The Lord is generous and He does not fill our cup half full or half empty but full to the brim and overflowing. He makes us a Boaz and Joseph whose fruitful boughs overhang the walls of a well-an eternal spring that never dries up and from which others can draw water and glean for grain or fruit. He comforts us in our sorrows and suffering and helps us to draw strength and meaning from our troubled times. He breaks every yoke of oppression and every cord or chain of bondage in our lives from deep within.

Prateep V Philip