I'm still working on that hermeneutics post, but for now I have something a little simpler. For some reason (I'm neither married nor seeing anyone right now), I was pondering this morning how my relationship with Jesus is a lot like marriage. Paul describes it this way in Ephesians, after all. As I understand it, women want a constant stream of intimacy in a relationship. When a man works hard at intimacy with their partner they feel like their relationship is nearly paradise under normal circumstances. When a man or woman becomes distant from their significant other, it takes time to rebuild the intimacy they have neglected to maintain. God is a lot like that. When we neglect to cultivate our intimacy with Him, we become distant from Him, and it takes time to rebuild the intimacy we neglected. Despite a Godly peace that feels like Paradise, we choose to leave it over and over again.
It is our fallen, sinful nature that makes us think we can ignore our God or our loved ones for any period of time. God does the redeeming of salvation, but it is our choice to sin that drives a wedge inbetween us. We have to pursue God like a man pursues a woman. It is one of the many ways women reflect God's image. They both desire to be pursued.
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