The Invisible Sin That Destroys Your Intimacy with God
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Darin Starks
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
The biggest thing blocking your intimacy with God isn’t what you think. For years, I believed distance from Him was only about my sin. But what I discovered is that sin doesn’t just separate—it distorts how we see God. I used to think He was ashamed of me, angry, or unwilling to welcome me back. That false view of God kept me away even more than the sin itself.
In this episode, I share a pivotal moment from Passion 2022 where confession and hearing God’s truth spoken over me completely changed the way I saw Him. We’ll look at how sin clouds our vision of God, how holiness clears it, and why renewing your mind with His Word is the only way to see Him as He truly is—merciful, gracious, slow to anger, abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
This isn’t just theology—it’s deeply personal. Because the way you see God will always determine how you interact with Him.
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| 0:00.0 | Sean has had some good ideas over the years, but using Canva was a really good one. |
| 0:08.0 | Sean designed some social posts to promote his friend's car boot sale. |
| 0:13.0 | They looked good, really, really good. |
| 0:17.0 | Next thing he knows, someone came and bought the lot, including the car. |
| 0:24.5 | Now Sean doesn't know how he's going to get home. |
| 0:28.0 | Thanks, Canva. |
| 0:30.3 | The number one thing blocking your intimacy with God isn't actually what you think. |
| 0:34.7 | I used to think that I was far from God simply because of my sin, |
| 0:37.9 | but it wasn't just because of me sending against God as much as it was the fact that I didn't |
| 0:44.3 | have the right view of him. And what I mean by that is I listened to this video on TikTok a very |
| 0:50.3 | long time ago, but there was a quote that stuck with me. And it was the fact that you're on cycles of sin, not because you don't believe God is real, |
| 0:57.8 | but because you don't believe that God is better, better than the cycles of sin that you're in, |
| 1:02.5 | the vices that you keep going back to, or really any pleasure that you're finding outside of God. |
| 1:09.8 | And that stuck with me because I've realized that |
| 1:12.5 | how you see God will always determine how you interact with him. So there was moments in my life |
| 1:17.5 | where I felt that God was angry at me, that he was so disappointed that he didn't want me to come |
| 1:22.6 | back home and that he was essentially looking at me just completely ashamed and had just thrown me to the side. |
| 1:29.2 | And so since that's the way I saw God, I interacted with him as such. |
| 1:34.0 | And whoever wants to return home to someone they don't believe actually wants them there. |
| 1:38.8 | And I didn't believe that God wanted me back home. |
| 1:41.5 | And so I kept my distance away from him. |
| 1:43.8 | And what I slowly started to realize was it wasn't just my sin keeping me away from God, |
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