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When a husband and wife have a relationship that is built solidly on a foundation of love, trust, and mutual respect, the closeness of their relationship is reflected in the most intimate moments of their marriage.
In the Bible, the word used to describe this type of relationship is the Hebrew word yada’ meaning “to know, perceive, recognize, to know intimately.”
This is the kind of love relationship God desires to have with each one of us — a relationship characterized by true knowledge and intimacy — and when He says, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you” (Jeremiah 1:5), it’s the same word yada’ that He uses.
God revealed a pattern for intimacy with Him in Ephesians 5:28-32 when Paul describes the mystery of the marriage relationship:
“So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body.
“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.”
When a husband and wife truly “know” one another, they aren’t just aware of their spouse’s favorite color, the restaurant where he or she likes to eat, or even special secrets that they confide to no one else except one another.
For a man and a woman to be truly intimate, they must know and experience intimacy with one another on every level of their relationship — emotionally, mentally, and physically.
When a husband and wife have a relationship that is built solidly on a foundation of love, trust, and mutual respect, the closeness of their relationship is reflected in the most intimate moments of their marriage.
In the Bible, the word used to describe this type of relationship is the Hebrew word yada’ meaning “to know, perceive, recognize, to know intimately.”
This is the kind of love relationship God desires to have with each one of us — a relationship characterized by true knowledge and intimacy — and when He says, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you” (Jeremiah 1:5), it’s the same word yada’ that He uses.
God revealed a pattern for intimacy with Him in Ephesians 5:28-32 when Paul describes the mystery of the marriage relationship:
“So husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself; for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, because we are members of His body.
“For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is great; but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church.”
When a husband and wife truly “know” one another, they aren’t just aware of their spouse’s favorite color, the restaurant where he or she likes to eat, or even special secrets that they confide to no one else except one another.
For a man and a woman to be truly intimate, they must know and experience intimacy with one another on every level of their relationship — emotionally, mentally, and physically.