Love Promotes Intimacy

This morning the line that hit me from the chapter says this from Revelation 3:20, "If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me." Jesus doesn't care what you have done in the past, if you open the door He will dine with you. He doesn't keep score, He doesn't say well that was one but you sinned a million times you better get cooking. He just lovingly sits down and shares a meal with you.

I was thinking about how this week at one point during the week we were comparing how much we spent on going to see each other's family and sending gifts etc. It was not a nice conversation and fraught with the frustration of materializing the Christmas season. Was this a safe conversation to be having with my husband? Did it build anyone up in the process of the conversation? At the end of the conversation did anyone feel better? The answer to all these questions is No. We didn't open the door and sit down understanding that above all else, we are relationship people who will spare nothing to be together with family. We had to set aside our frustrations and realize that the reason for Christmas isn't the presents or the money spent. It's the laughter and joy for each and everyone one of us.

In the end, I spent the day baking cookies with love in my heart and every child got cookies on my husband's side. It was the best present for each of them to have and they loved it. One dozen Christmas cookies, filled with love of the season. My husband and I sharing our love with children and not breaking the bank. In the end we felt safe with each other and upheld our no debt Christmas season. So we open the door and sat together to devise a plan without flinging our frustrations at each other. That's what God does too, He sits and eats with you never talking about the sins you committed only finding solutions that uphold a Christlike existence.

How do you spend your time with your spouse? Are you upholding Christ and finding solutions that make your home safe? How can you start this process in your life?