It was late and I ain't had the best couple of days, and the cat, that everyone loves, just succotash behind the TV. I am the only one up for duty so...
This is, btw, the second time. Wanna cat? Really, he(it) needs a place to live, although swiss cat comes to mind
This is the edited part from my post in John study.
If I wanted to know someone very well, intimately if you will, and possably my life or livelyhood depended on it, how would I go about it, what would I do? Would I gather all the material I could on the person and spend time mentally ingesting it? Maybe I'd seek to secure an audience with said person, even as much as I could get. If I was so enamoured with that person would I not tell other people about them?
Here is another line of thought. Take a best friend. He's a friend and by definition the best, worth the time to spend with for whatever particular reasons because they enhance your life right? Fun to be around. Right there ready to listen and only talk just at the right time to lift up, bolster strength, encourage, or even keep a little reigned in.
Something else, a true friend doesn't pay any mind to others' teasing or ridicule for being a friend. Obviously the others are ignorant of the great friend one may have. This greatness will bear out when sometime you screw up real bad and hurt that friend, when he forgives. Yup, a great friend, an intimate friend, one that is a part of life that if missing is sorely missed.
Know anyone like that?
I do.
He wanted intimacy with us so bad he became one of us. Then he was crucified for all of us.....cruel excruciating agony to secure that intimacy.
(More thoughts go here but now I am tired)
Talk to Him about it. Read the most astounding book you'll ever pick up, it is all about it.
I am thankful though, that my friend, my father, abba (Heb. daddy), isn't as negligent about our intimacy as I am.
