Walking with God

Psalm 1:1   Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose delights is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and night.

Our intimacy with God first began in the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve walked with God.  The word "walk" not only indicates physical movement, but oneness and unity in heart and mind - intimacy.  We were created intimately; God breathed into dust and created humanity in His image.  Adam and Eve were created to be God's people, and God was the true and only God for Adam and Eve.

It is this very communion with God - spending time with Him - which leads to intimacy.

The first two verses in Psalm 1 indicate that a person is blessed when he or she willingly delights in meditating on God's Law instead of spending time with the wicked and sinners.
More than any other Christians discipline, it is reading and meditating on God's Word that develops our intimacy with God, because true intimacy can only result when we deeply know, in both mind and heart, who God is and what He has done.
Intimacy with God is a privilege freely given to us by Christ in His
sacrifice on the cross.  He removed our sins so that we might dwell with God.  But in this, we need to be fully aware that any pattern of habitual, unrepented sin will not only be a hindrance to increasing intimacy, but will be something that takes away from whatever intimacy with God we may already have.

In Psalm 51:11-12, David pleads that God might not take away the relationship of intimacy with Him.  These two verses, which start the second half of the psalm, reflect David's heartfelt desire for continued intimacy with God.  David understood that sin separates us from God, so he pleads that God might deal with the issue of sin so that intimacy might not ever be lost.

This must be our very attitude as well.  Rather than becoming complacent or giving up entirely, we ought to follow David's lead and continue to confess our sins so that we remain in intimate relationship with our God .  For that is the reason why we were created; and in so doing, we honor God.

[Extracted from LIVING LIFE : August 2012 - Honoring God through Intimacy by Steven Oh]