Someone said something to me this week that stood out:
They told me to meditate on God's word because then you will know His thoughts and how He thinks; it is a form of intimacy - intimacy of the mind.
Of course I have always known it is good to meditate on God's word, but I never thought about it as "intimacy of the mind". That stuck out to me, firstly because I love intimacy and the feeling of vulnerability, and second because sometimes I spend a lot of time replaying social situations and words people say to me. Sometimes for my own sake, for processing or whatever. But sometimes to help me empathize with them and try to understand how they think and feel and act. It is always a great feeling to be able to know how a friend thinks and feels. How much greater if you can think the way God thinks?
I guess it's a little weird but sometimes I learn to love God by thinking about how I love my friends. The bible mentions it too - "for whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen". Perhaps it is easier to love those you can see, because they are more tangible, and more understandable. Of course, we can love at all because God loved us first. And of course, we prioritize loving God first, before loving people, but honestly they come hand in hand; you cannot separate a love for God and a love for His people.
