I have been talking about how to develop deep intimacy with Jesus.

How to deepen your love for Jesus.

And the question is this, what is that intimacy?

How you develop it?

The word intimacy, like so many other words, like love and democracy and all those words,

are kind of really misunderstood and banded about without proper definitions or misinterpreted in many ways.

Today, if you ask the average person, the word intimacy, they think you're talking about sexual intimacy.

That's how our culture is now.

But intimacy has a far deeper meaning. Intimacy is the connection with another person on an emotional level. Intimacy is a connection with another

person on an intellectual level. Intimacy is the connection with another person on an intellectual level.

Intimacy is the connection with another person on a spiritual level, spirit to spirit.

Intimacy is the connection with another person in terms of mutual interest and common desires.

Intimacy is the connection to another person, heart to heart,

and soul to soul. And the reason we have so many broken relationships today, the reason we have

so many fractured relationships today, and the reason we have so many fragmented relationships

today is because our generation has a false understanding of what intimacy is all about.

I want to explain this. You see, intimacy is not instant. It's not manufactured while you wait. Intimacy is a process. Intimacy takes time to develop.

True intimacy cannot develop overnight. Above all else, intimacy requires trust. Intimacy needs time investment. There's no going around this.

Thinking about the time investment, I thought of a story of the young couple who fell in love with each other and they wanted to get married.

But the young man got conscripted into the

military and he was shipped overseas and he was to serve overseas for a year. But before leaving,

he promised his wife to be that he's going to be writing her a letter every single day while he's away.

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