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Intimacy with our Creator is like the intimacy in a kind and affectionate MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP.

Probably the best way to describe our intimate relationship with our Creator in human terms is that it is a romantic love relationship that is very similar to the shared love and affection that is (or should be) in a human marriage relationship.

And just as couples become “one” with each other in a marriage, we become “one” with the Son of God. And when we become “one” with the Son, we also become “one” with his Father, for “the fullness of the Godhead is in Christ.”

“For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:” (Colossians 2:9-10)

Our intimate love relationship with our Lord and Savior then becomes similar to that of the relationship of a Bride and a Bridegroom, where we are the Bride and the Son of God is our Bridegroom.

The apostle Paul calls this “a great mystery.”

“Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

..... For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.” (Ephesians 5:22-32)