Most
adults by their late twenties have found an acceptable person of the opposite
sex to marry. We need to be close - to be emotionally, spiritually, and
physically attached. Emotional isolation is unnatural and not what God
intended, but happens when hurt and angry feelings are mishandled and where
healthy communication is absent.
Emotional isolation supplants or
replaces intimacy and close attachments if fear of rejection has a strong history.
Coupled with fear of rejection is a reluctance to trust others or oneself. Fear
of rejection tied with the inability to trust blocks healthy intimacy from
taking place. Fear of rejection often originates with distant or absent parents.
Choosing
to love and be loved must be grounded in knowing you are lovable. God loves and
accepts you as you are, with all your fears, doubts, and lack of trust. God's
desire is to transform you into a person capable of intimacy and loving attachments.
In Psalm 51, David asked God to "renew a right spirit" within him.
Will you do that?
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