“Draw me away with you!” (Song 1:4). This speaks of intimacy with God. It speaks of our private interactions with Him. Did you know every one of us is developing a secret history in God? Every believer on the earth is developing that secret history, that interaction with God that nobody else can see.
Whether we are in a public gathering, whether we are at a workplace, whether we are in a prayer room, or whether we are walking in a park, we all carry our heart in a certain way and make our own choices. We are developing our secret history in God.
That does not mean that nobody ever sees what is going on, but most of what happens in all of our lives happens on the inside. It has to do with those choices that we make continually. Not whether to sin or not to sin but how to maintain the dialogue with Him in our heart. How we are going to refuse condemnation. How we are going to resist temptation. How, when the Devil comes and there is disappointment and we want to just give up and give in, thinking it is not worth it, but the Lord says, “Really, don’t you know I love you and all things work together for good? Contend for what I told you is true about you.”
How do we grow in this? When we study His name, what His personality is like, what He feels like, how He acts, what He thinks, love is awakened in our heart. A lot of folks want their love to increase. They want to feel the power of it. They want to feel the love of God for them, and they want to feel love back to God. But sometimes what they do to pursue an increase in their love is to go to a worship service thinking someone will pray for them and impart it to them. Although the Lord can work through that, we mostly grow in the revelation of His love day by day, inch by inch, reading the Word and talking to Jesus, and letting the Holy Spirit touch our heart even little by little. That is how we grow in love.
People say, “I believe everything you are saying, but I do not read the Word. I am not really one of those guys.” If that is true of you, then you will live a spiritually superficial life. You may have a powerful gifting that opens up big doors for you. You might sell a lot of CDs and make a lot of money on them. You might be a famous preacher. But if you don't give yourself to spending time in the Word and intentionally pursuing His love, yo will live spiritually shallow on the inside. And that can turn into the greatest tragedy a believer can have in this age—to be a sincere believer but live spiritually shallow
Lord, we individually want to cry out to You, “Draw me away with [Y]ou!”
