1 Samuel 17

This promise of intimacy is both right and wrong. There is an intimacy with God, but it's like any other intimacy; it's part of the fabric of your life. In marriage you don't feel intimate most of the time. Nor with a friend. Intimacy isn't primarily a mystical emotion. It's a way of life, a life of openness, honesty, a certain transparency………Eugene Peterson

I keep reading this quote and being alternately inspired and challenged by it. The way my husband and I are living right now seems to be bringing us this intimacy. There are coming to be more opportunities to discuss where God is in our lives. Is that because we are seeking Him or just an overall maturity read: age and experience thing. We don’t know, what we do know is bringing Him more and more into the center of our lives has created so many amazing challenges, challenging relationships, relational opportunities. Bringing Him more…that sounds ridiculous as what we are learning is HE THE CENTER, always has been always will be…but you get what I mean or don’t……

45-47 David answered, "You come at me with sword and spear and battle-ax. I come at you in the name of God-of-the-Angel-Armies, the God of Israel's troops, whom you curse and mock. This very day God is handing you over to me. I'm about to kill you, cut off your head, and serve up your body and the bodies of your Philistine buddies to the crows and coyotes. The whole earth will know that there's an extraordinary God in Israel. And everyone gathered here will learn that God doesn't save by means of sword or spear. The battle belongs to God—he's handing you to us on a platter!"

David’s confidence, a result of his intimacy with God??
The battle belongs to God that’s for sure but it is still ours now to….fight?
I don’t know….fight sounds so combative…if You are a God of love how do we fight, do we fight…..
I long to have answers and find only more questions but the questions sure do take me to seeking You and in that seeking, developing that intimacy, confidence in You grows……
I pray to be like David ready to do what YOU ask.
I pray to live eyes wide open moving and without blinking respond.
I pray to in recognizing fear overcome it..??..I don't know I simply know that seeking You and Your word makes me want 'it' more and more.....

here's someone who doesn't blink......