The Intimate God, Anonymous

By the mercy of the Lord, I received Him at the early age of thirteen. Like many Christians, I attended all the Christian meetings that were available to me. Throughout my junior high and high school years, I kept myself closely connected with my church friends out of the fear of drifting into the world. However, deep in me I wasn't satisfied. God was remote and merely objective to me.

According to His sovereign arrangement, I was kept away from my Christian companions during my college years. For the first time in my life, I learned to contact the Lord personally and desperately. During the span of my college years, I pursued after worldly attainments. While many of these things were really good, nevertheless they took my heart away from the Lord.

Arriving in Anaheim the fall after I graduated from college, I determined to only give the Lord six months to work on me. Little did I know that would be expanded to a two year stay. Throughout the two years in the Training, it has been a continual process of tearing down and building up. I came to realize that who I am and what I have is good for nothing but death and burial (Romans 7:18). He has stripped me of all that I thought I had and is replacing every part of my being with Himself. The God who was once remote and objective has become intimate and subjective.

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