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I mean, we\u2019ve just been together a lot. But what we realized is that, probably sometime midsummer, we both kind of realized: \u201cAll this togetherness does <em>not<\/em> equal oneness. Hours upon hours together does not mean we\u2019re connecting deeply.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. I\u2019m Ann Wilson.\n\n<strong>Dave:<\/strong> And I\u2019m Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on our FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> app.\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>We\u2019re back on the <em>boat<\/em> in the Caribbean.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes, we are\u2014\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Well, sort of.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014virtual.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>It\u2019s the <em>Love Like You Mean It<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> virtual cruise. We get to listen to a message from our president, David Robbins, and his wife, Meg, which was given on\u2014again, it was a virtual cruise\u2014we didn\u2019t get to go out on a boat because of COVID, but we got to sit in our homes. <em>Thousands<\/em> of couples did this; it actually ended up being a <em>great<\/em> cruise.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes, it was really <em>fun<\/em>.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes, it was really fun; we had messages that were given virtually.\n\nBy the way, we are going on a boat next year, 2022. February 6<sup>th<\/sup>-13<sup>th<\/sup> we will be on the water; we want you to join us. If you sign up now, before June 28<sup>th<\/sup>, you get a <em>great<\/em> deal. I would say, \u201cSign up immediately; that thing will sell out.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Go to FamilyLifeToday.com, and you\u2019ll be able to see some of the promotions we have going on.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes, it\u2019s pretty good stuff.\n\nToday, we get to listen to David and Meg talk about\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014going deeper.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>\u2014deep.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>It really applies to the year we\u2019ve gone through.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>You would think that being under one roof, and probably spending more time together than most have us have spent together as a couple, we would just have the best marriages right now. But they talk about how it can be really hard to go really deep intimately and be fully known in our own homes.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes; so here\u2019s David and Meg.\n\n[Previous <em>Love Like You Mean It <\/em>Message]\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>Welcome to our home! [Laughter] We so wish we were together in person, sailing the seas; but if we can\u2019t, then we might as well come a little closer. Come to the most intimate place of the Robbins, and that is our home. We are so thankful to be with you and get to share tonight with you.\n\n<strong>Meg: <\/strong>I think, when we think about this last year, we\u2019ve probably spent more hours under this roof together than we have probably together at home, maybe even since our honeymoon or our first year of marriage, just because of the pandemic. We\u2019ve just been together a lot. But what we\u2019ve realized is that, probably sometime midsummer I think, we both kind of realized: \u201cAll this togetherness does <em>not<\/em> equal oneness.\u201d\n\nHonestly, I think if anything, when we got really honest about how we\u2019re doing midsummer, it was like, \u201cOkay, after several months of this, we\u2019re really not connected; we\u2019re kind of drifting. We\u2019re kind of emotionally on two totally separate islands. What does it look like to dig in, and invite you in, and experience that emotional connectedness that we long for and that we know we typically love?\u201d\n\nHours together in the same room, especially with our kids around all the time, oneness doesn\u2019t just happen\u2014we talk about that a lot\u2014you have to fight for it.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>Yes, you have to pursue it. There was a moment, where we were really getting to that place and going, \u201cThis isn\u2019t okay; we don\u2019t want to settle for this. This pandemic is continuing, and we have to address this.\u201d\n\nWe were like, \u201cIt\u2019s the onion again,\u201d [Laughter] which means nothing to you, probably. But for us, we remember joining staff and going through a seminary class; this analogy of this onion the seminary professor told was like: \u201cThat is growing closer to God and growing closer to one another.\u201d It\u2019s such a beautiful analogy.\n\nYou know, there are three different types of loves. There\u2019s <em>phileo<\/em> love, which is brotherly love or that emotional-connection love; there\u2019s <em>eros<\/em> love, which is passionate; and then there\u2019s <em>agape<\/em> love, which is unconditional love\u2014Jesus-type love\u2014comes from above\/unable to do on our own.\n\nIf our lives are like an onion, we get through layers in each other\u2019s lives, where we\u2019re going through the layers of the onion in [each other\u2019s] lives. There\u2019s that easy connection and <em>phileo,<\/em> and then there\u2019s the <em>eros<\/em> and the passion, and then you hit a layer\u2014you hit those layers, that you go, \u201cOh, the way we\u2019re operating isn\u2019t going to get us through this layer,\u201d\u2014this layer requires <em>agape<\/em>, supernatural, Jesus-inspired love in order to love <em>through<\/em>.\n\nWe hit these different layers in both of our lives; and we\u2019re like, \u201cOkay, this is the onion. This is a moment where it\u2019s going to require us to re-surrender to the Lord and really trust Him again with <em>agape-<\/em>type love.\u201d The beautiful thing that we keep finding that we are getting those first fruits of\u2014again, is that when you go through those layers that require <em>agape<\/em> love\u2014on the other side of it is <em>deeper<\/em> emotional connection and <em>phileo<\/em> love, <em>deeper<\/em> <em>eros<\/em>-type of love.\n\n<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Yes; because really, we <em>long<\/em> for that deep connection. We long for it from the Lord, and we long for it with each other, just a soul-level connection that we cannot have without the Lord, really.\n\nOne of my favorite quotes on this is Tim Keller; he says this: \u201cTo be loved but not known is comforting, but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.\u201d\n\nWe need the <em>courage<\/em> to go deeper into the unknown parts of our lives. Greater intimacy in marriage and greater intimacy with the Lord go hand in hand, and it takes courage to peel back the layers and let someone in, and also love into those layers\/love through those layers, just like you were talking about with the onion.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>We want to talk about <em>three<\/em> ways that we can actually pursue that; [so] that when we hit those layers in our lives\u2014which I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve hit some during this past year\u2014\u201cHow do we pursue these deeper types of intimacy with the Lord and with one another?\u201d\n\nThe first one is\/the first pathway would be: \u201cEmbrace being fully loved and fully known by God in deeper ways. It is entering the deeper parts of your own story with the Lord. Psalm 139 is one of those [Psalms] where David goes on and on about the security we have and us being fully known by the Lord: He hems us in behind and before; He knows the deepest parts of our lives; we were created in our mother\u2019s womb\/He knits us in that place; His thoughts are too vast for us. As he reflects on all those things, he gets to the end of that Psalm, and then in verse 23 of Psalm 139, he says, \u201cSearch me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts; and see if there be any grievous way in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.\u201d\n\nOut of that security of knowing\u2014\u201cGod, You know everything already. You know fully everything about Meg; You know fully everything about me,\u201d\u2014out of that place of You knowing all of that\u2014\u201cOkay, Lord, in that security, knowing You love me, search me. I offer myself up to You anew. Whatever\u2019s happening in my life, Lord, I want to offer myself up to You, surrender, and go into those deeper places with You, so You can lead me in the way everlasting.\u201d\n\nWe\u2019ve been reading this year, really our favorite book of 2020, which is <em>Gentle and Lowly<\/em> by Dane Ortlund. He quotes lots of Puritans throughout the book. He quotes John Bunyan, and John Bunyan\u2019s really talking about how we tend to deflect Christ\u2019s assurances. He says we often say:\n\n\u201cNo, wait, God; You don\u2019t understand. I\u2019ve really messed up in all kinds of ways.\u201d And Christ responds, \u201cI know.\u201d\n\n\u201cBut You know most of it, sure, certainly more than others see; but there\u2019s perversity down inside of me that is hidden from everyone.\u201d And Christ says, \u201cI know it all.\u201d\n\nWe respond, \u201cWell, the thing is, it isn\u2019t just my past; it\u2019s my present, too.\u201d And Christ says, \u201cI understand.\u201d\n\n\u201cBut I don\u2019t know if I can break free of all this anytime soon.\u201d And Jesus responds, \u201cThat\u2019s the only kind of person I\u2019m here to help.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe burden is heavy, and heavier all the time\u201d; and Jesus responds, \u201cThen let Me carry it.\u201d\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s too much for me!\u201d And Christ responds, \u201cNot for Me.\u201d\n\n\u201cYou don\u2019t get it. My offenses aren\u2019t directed towards others; they\u2019re against You.\u201d \u201cThen I\u2019m the only One most suited to forgive you.\u201d\n\n\u201cBut the more of the ugliness in me You discover, the sooner You\u2019re going to get fed up with me.\u201d And Christ responds, \u201cWhoever comes to Me I will never cast out.\u201d\n\nBunyan concludes: \u201cThis promise was provided to answer all objections, and it does answer them.\u201d\n\n<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Yes, it\u2019s a rock-solid promise; this <em>is<\/em> the gospel. I mean, I love that; it\u2019s so beautiful. It reminds me of Romans 8:38: \u201cFor I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.\u201d\n\nThat is a ginormous promise\u2014that nothing: no sin in my own heart, no disappointment, no fears, no doubts\/and all those things just listed\u2014nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes.\n\nThat leads to our second point, that says: \u201cIf we\u2019re going to pursue deeper and deeper layers of intimacy with one another, it first starts with, \u2018How much do I let in my spouse?\u2019\u201d We all kind of have those decisions to make of: \u201c\u2026to what extent?\u201d I mean, we delight in being fully known and fully loved\u2014we say with our mouth\u2014but as life goes on, as we get in ruts, as something surprises us\u2014like doubts that may surface in our lives\u2014do we keep going in and being fully known with our spouse and experience being fully loved in the ways that Christ empowers us to be in those deeper places?\n\nThe second point is simple; but yet, it\u2019s true: \u201cWe have to invite our spouse into those fully known and fully loved layers.\u201d God already fully knows them and loves them, and we invite our spouses into those places to disclose the deeper, unknown places that are becoming known; so that we can grow together and so that intimacy continues to cultivate.\n\nEphesians 4:2-3 says, \u201cBe completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.\u201d Implied in a marriage, we are wired to bear with one another in love\/in <em>agape<\/em> love in the hard layers in our lives. We are made to have unity in the Spirit\u2014the same Spirit that\u2019s in Meg; the same Spirit that\u2019s in me\u2014we are wired in order to have intimacy with the same Spirit so that there would be a bond of peace.\n\nPeace doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s not tumultuous things happening in our lives; but there is the peace of having God\u2019s presence with us and experiencing that, in that, together.\n\n<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Yes; honestly, our oneness grows as we invite the other person in even more. I think\/you know, it\u2019s kind of coming to terms with the obvious: that David cannot read my mind. When I was going through that, and wrestling with those things, he can\u2019t read my mind and he can\u2019t read my heart; the Lord certainly can, but he <em>can\u2019t<\/em>. So our oneness\u2014I think, even this summer, reflecting back to how we were drifting apart a little bit\u2014it\u2019s because even though\/I think, because were together all the time, I started to assume: \u201cWell, he should know that I\u2019m irritated by that,\u201d or \u201cHe should know that I wanted to do this.\u201d\n\nI will never forget, when were getting married, my older brother, who was already married at the time, he was like, \u201cMy one piece of advice is: if you want David to do something, you need to tell him. If you\u2019re sitting there, and you just cooked dinner; and you would like for him to do the dishes\u2014and he says, \u2018Hey, do you want me to do the dishes?\u2019\u2014don\u2019t say, \u2018No!\u2019\/say, \u2018Yes,\u2019\u2014because he doesn\u2019t know what you want him to say.\u201d It was kind of revolutionary. It seems so simple, but it\u2019s <em>so true<\/em>. I think, sometimes, we <em>assume<\/em> that he\u2019s going to know this about me\u2014because we\u2019re here; we\u2019re together; we\u2019re so close; and we are one\u2014but yet, that doesn\u2019t equal knowing everything without me saying it.\n\nI think it\u2019s a choice. Just like I have to say, if I want him to do the dishes\u2014I have to tell him if I\u2019m sad, or I\u2019m hurting, or I\u2019m feeling lonely or disappointed, or joyful and excited about something\u2014it\u2019s learning to invite him in by taking that risk, and taking the walls of my heart down, and letting him see what\u2019s really going on.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>We have to choose to let our spouse in\u2014which is so simple, and it\u2019s 101 stuff\u2014but as life takes its course, which this year certainly life has taken its course, grace allows us to invite our spouse in without having shame, and go into those places, and invite them into those places.\n\n<strong>Meg: <\/strong>So true. I was just thinking about how the first point\u2014of being fully known and fully loved by the Lord\u2014really helps us believe and be rooted in that grace that allows us to invite our spouse in.\n\nThe third thing is that we would pursue our spouse to fully know them and lavish them with love. I think the second one is more about inviting our spouse in, and the third one is taking active steps to pursue the heart of your spouse. It\u2019s entering into the deeper spaces of your spouse\u2019s heart and life and pursuing into those places. Because of what Christ has done, and because of His great lavish love for us, this is possible.\n\nI love\/there are <em>so many<\/em> verses on God\u2019s love for us and how He calls us to love one another, but I\u2019m going to quickly read through a few:\n\nJohn 13:34 says: \u201cA new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another,\u201d with that lavish love.\n\nJohn 15:12: \u201cThis is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.\u201d\n\nJohn 15:17: \u201cThese things I command you so that you will love one another.\u201d\n\n1 John 4:11: \u201cBeloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.\u201d\n\nThe last verse, 1 John 3:11: \u201cFor this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.\u201d\n\nThe <em>greatest<\/em> thing about this is that\u2014not only does Jesus model so perfectly for us and we can experience that oneness with Him\u2014but He also empowers us to do it. He doesn\u2019t just tell us to love and hope that we\u2019re going to do it on our own\u2014because I don\u2019t know about you, but I fail miserably when I\u2019m trying to love David on my own, and show him all the things that he needs and he\u2019s wired to have\u2014but the Lord gives us the Holy Spirit. Through Him, we can love in a way that frees us up to be kind when we\u2019re not able to on our own, to show kindness, and love, and peace, and all of those things. That, to me, is just\/I am so grateful; and it\u2019s the only way that I think we can experience oneness the way that God designs us to.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>Yes, God designs us to love one another like He loved us. That\u2019s only possible by us, not being self-reliant to try harder, but us surrendering and getting on our knees and going, \u201cGod, I need Your help to be able to love like You love and pursue Meg, being fully known and fully loved, and experiencing that from me.\u201d He\u2019s the only One that truly fully knows every part of Meg and fully loves her with perfect love; but I get to pursue her, by the power of the Holy Spirit, and give her glimpses of God\u2019s love in a tangible way, us together, going into those places.\n\nBut often, it seems like we want the fruit of companionship without the demands of genuine intimacy, which takes us back to the onion and where we started. We get to those layers; we go, \u201cOh, man, this is hard.\u201d Sometimes, we don\u2019t even realize we\u2019re at that hard level and we\u2019re just kind of bumping up against it; but when we realize it, like we did this past summer, we\u2019re like: \u201cOkay, this takes <em>agape<\/em> love layers. This takes dependence upon His Spirit to be able to enter in together.\u201d\n\nThis takes risk; this takes courage and some steps of faith to know how we\u2019re loved:\n\nFirst point: to be able to open ourselves up, again, and know, \u201cOkay, God, You fully love me and know me. I invite You into the deeper places. Help me go deeper through this layer.\u201d\n\nSecondly: to be able to invite someone else in.\n\nAnd then thirdly: to be able to pursue being fully known and fully loved.\n\nThat\u2019s what we get to do: know ourselves more, invite our spouse in, and then pursue our spouse ourselves, with a Holy Spirit divine type of power and love.\n\nI just would say, as we begin to close, remember this and remember the power of the analogy of the onion. The great thing is, as you go through those <em>agape<\/em> layers, better <em>eros<\/em> is on the other side; because that deep emotional and spiritual connection happens. Man, you begin to unlock something and deeper levels of <em>eros<\/em> intimacy that comes along with deeper levels of spiritual and emotional connection.\n\n<strong>Meg: <\/strong>It\u2019s true; very true.\n\nOne last thing that has been so helpful for us through the years is to set ourselves up like the letter \u201cM.\u201d If I\u2019m to\u2014let\u2019s say this is me, and this is this side of the \u201cM\u201d [left side of the \u201cV\u201d\u2014this is God right here [the side of the \u201cM\u201d], and He is the anchor on both sides of our marriage\u2014we\u2019re kind of like the \u201cV\u201d in the middle. God is over here [on the left], and I\u2019m leaning on Him\u2014He is where I am getting all of my stability; I\u2019m rooted and grounded in Him\u2014and David is, too, over there [right side of the \u201cV\u201d]; but we\u2019re still one.\n\nThis is one letter here, and we\u2019re deeply connected; we\u2019re together. Oneness is being together\u2014but it\u2019s being rooted in the Lord first and continuing to grow in both of those places\u2014because ultimately, God is the One who knows us fully; He\u2019s the only One who can ever know us in that complete full way and love us perfectly. But marriage allows us to enter in and love each other in a beautiful, amazing way.\n\nWe would just say, in closing, to remember that God loves us in a way that we can\u2019t love each other; and yet, He calls us to love in the power that He gives us to love deeper than we can imagine.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>You\u2019ve been listening to David and Meg Robbins, our president of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, on the <em>Love Like You Mean It<\/em> virtual cruise. Boy, they got into it. If anything good has happened in the last year\/this COVID year\u2014where many of us did what we just did, watching\/[listening to] this message; we\u2019re sitting at our homes, where we\u2019ve sort of been locked down\u2014we had a chance to go deeper in our relationship or pull away. Their challenge was: \u201cLet God grow you deeper.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I love that; because they talked about going deeper in our heart, in our spouse\u2019s heart, and Jesus\u2019 heart as well. All three of those are really important. And I just love David and Meg. I mean, they\u2019re just fun to listen to; they\u2019re great to be around; and they\u2019re great leaders.\n\nSo let me ask you: \u201cAs you\u2019ve listened to this, what could our call to action be? What do you think?\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>The first thing I think of is something we teach at the FamilyLife <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, and that\u2019s level-five communication; that\u2019s what they were talking about. Going deeper means I\u2019m going to go down to level five, which means I\u2019m going to share my <em>heart<\/em>. Level three or level two is\u2014I\u2019m sort of superficial\u2014and you can be that way with some people in your life. But level five in a marriage\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>It\u2019s not every minute of the day.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>No, but it does mean that I\u2019m going to reveal\u2014my heart, my struggles, my doubts, my weakness\u2014with the most important person in my life, which is my spouse.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>It\u2019s scary to go there! That\u2019s what they were talking about\u2014that\u2019s deep, and it\u2019s easier to live in superficial-land\u2014but man, if there\u2019s one person you want to go deep with, it\u2019s your spouse and your King\/your Lord. The benefits of going there, as scary as it is, are intimacy\u2014not only with God\u2014but with your spouse; so it\u2019s worth it.\n\nI would challenge, especially the men\u2014I think women go there easier; maybe I\u2019m wrong, but I know you do\u2014so I would challenge the men: \u201cShare something <em>real<\/em>; share something <em>scary<\/em> with your spouse today, and ask God to meet you and take you deeper.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>It doesn\u2019t have to be necessarily about your marriage, but what you\u2019re facing in life and what you\u2019re feeling in life. That\u2019s a good challenge; thanks.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I can imagine that, for some people, the thought of sharing something that\u2019s been hidden\/something that\u2019s been kept under the covers, that can feel scary and threatening. You wonder if you\u2019re safe. I think the question for you is: \u201cWhat can I do to help my marriage become the kind of safe place, where we can be transparent?\u2014where we can be what Genesis 2 talks about, naked and unashamed with each other.\u201d\n\nIf you\u2019d like to hear the complete message from David and Meg Robbins, called \u201cIntimacy from the Depths,\u201d you can go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com. The message is available for download there. Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com.\n\nDavid and Meg presented this message as a breakout session on FamilyLife\u2019s 2021 <em>Love Like You Mean It<\/em> virtual marriage cruise. The good news is the cruise in 2022 will not be virtual! It will be in real life, IRL. We\u2019re going to be face to face with one another on the cruise, and we\u2019d love to have you join us.\n\nEvery year that we\u2019ve done the <em>Love Like You Mean It<\/em> marriage cruise, it has been a sellout; and this year\u2019s cruise is starting to sell out as well. We have a limited number of cabins still available. This is a <em>great<\/em> week for you to reserve your cabin, because we have a Back to Cruising special that we\u2019ve put together for <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners. It ends on Monday; you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to reserve your cabin on the cruise. If you need more information, go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com, and click on the link you find there. Join us Valentine\u2019s week of 2022: the <em>Love Like You Mean It<\/em> marriage cruise. Again, call 1-800-358-6329 to sign up; that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\nNow, I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve ever stopped to think about this, but God is the One who invented intimacy in marriage; He invented sex. Tomorrow, we\u2019re going to hear from\n\nDr. Juli Slattery about God\u2019s good gift to every couple and how we can be a part of that. I hope you can join us for that.\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\nOn behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\n<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife; a Cru<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>Ministry.\n\nHelping you pursue the relationships that matter most.\n\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\n\nWe are so happy to provide these transcripts to you. However, there is a cost to produce them for our website. 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I mean, we\u2019ve just been together a lot. But what we realized is that, probably sometime midsummer, we both kind of realized: \u201cAll this togetherness does <em>not<\/em> equal oneness. Hours upon hours together does not mean we\u2019re connecting deeply.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> Welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. I\u2019m Ann Wilson.\n\n<strong>Dave:<\/strong> And I\u2019m Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on our FamilyLife<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> app.\n\n<strong>Ann:<\/strong> This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>We\u2019re back on the <em>boat<\/em> in the Caribbean.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes, we are\u2014\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Well, sort of.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014virtual.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>It\u2019s the <em>Love Like You Mean It<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup> virtual cruise. We get to listen to a message from our president, David Robbins, and his wife, Meg, which was given on\u2014again, it was a virtual cruise\u2014we didn\u2019t get to go out on a boat because of COVID, but we got to sit in our homes. <em>Thousands<\/em> of couples did this; it actually ended up being a <em>great<\/em> cruise.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes, it was really <em>fun<\/em>.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes, it was really fun; we had messages that were given virtually.\n\nBy the way, we are going on a boat next year, 2022. February 6<sup>th<\/sup>-13<sup>th<\/sup> we will be on the water; we want you to join us. If you sign up now, before June 28<sup>th<\/sup>, you get a <em>great<\/em> deal. I would say, \u201cSign up immediately; that thing will sell out.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Go to FamilyLifeToday.com, and you\u2019ll be able to see some of the promotions we have going on.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes, it\u2019s pretty good stuff.\n\nToday, we get to listen to David and Meg talk about\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014going deeper.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>\u2014deep.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>It really applies to the year we\u2019ve gone through.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>You would think that being under one roof, and probably spending more time together than most have us have spent together as a couple, we would just have the best marriages right now. But they talk about how it can be really hard to go really deep intimately and be fully known in our own homes.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes; so here\u2019s David and Meg.\n\n[Previous <em>Love Like You Mean It <\/em>Message]\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>Welcome to our home! [Laughter] We so wish we were together in person, sailing the seas; but if we can\u2019t, then we might as well come a little closer. Come to the most intimate place of the Robbins, and that is our home. We are so thankful to be with you and get to share tonight with you.\n\n<strong>Meg: <\/strong>I think, when we think about this last year, we\u2019ve probably spent more hours under this roof together than we have probably together at home, maybe even since our honeymoon or our first year of marriage, just because of the pandemic. We\u2019ve just been together a lot. But what we\u2019ve realized is that, probably sometime midsummer I think, we both kind of realized: \u201cAll this togetherness does <em>not<\/em> equal oneness.\u201d\n\nHonestly, I think if anything, when we got really honest about how we\u2019re doing midsummer, it was like, \u201cOkay, after several months of this, we\u2019re really not connected; we\u2019re kind of drifting. We\u2019re kind of emotionally on two totally separate islands. What does it look like to dig in, and invite you in, and experience that emotional connectedness that we long for and that we know we typically love?\u201d\n\nHours together in the same room, especially with our kids around all the time, oneness doesn\u2019t just happen\u2014we talk about that a lot\u2014you have to fight for it.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>Yes, you have to pursue it. There was a moment, where we were really getting to that place and going, \u201cThis isn\u2019t okay; we don\u2019t want to settle for this. This pandemic is continuing, and we have to address this.\u201d\n\nWe were like, \u201cIt\u2019s the onion again,\u201d [Laughter] which means nothing to you, probably. But for us, we remember joining staff and going through a seminary class; this analogy of this onion the seminary professor told was like: \u201cThat is growing closer to God and growing closer to one another.\u201d It\u2019s such a beautiful analogy.\n\nYou know, there are three different types of loves. There\u2019s <em>phileo<\/em> love, which is brotherly love or that emotional-connection love; there\u2019s <em>eros<\/em> love, which is passionate; and then there\u2019s <em>agape<\/em> love, which is unconditional love\u2014Jesus-type love\u2014comes from above\/unable to do on our own.\n\nIf our lives are like an onion, we get through layers in each other\u2019s lives, where we\u2019re going through the layers of the onion in [each other\u2019s] lives. There\u2019s that easy connection and <em>phileo,<\/em> and then there\u2019s the <em>eros<\/em> and the passion, and then you hit a layer\u2014you hit those layers, that you go, \u201cOh, the way we\u2019re operating isn\u2019t going to get us through this layer,\u201d\u2014this layer requires <em>agape<\/em>, supernatural, Jesus-inspired love in order to love <em>through<\/em>.\n\nWe hit these different layers in both of our lives; and we\u2019re like, \u201cOkay, this is the onion. This is a moment where it\u2019s going to require us to re-surrender to the Lord and really trust Him again with <em>agape-<\/em>type love.\u201d The beautiful thing that we keep finding that we are getting those first fruits of\u2014again, is that when you go through those layers that require <em>agape<\/em> love\u2014on the other side of it is <em>deeper<\/em> emotional connection and <em>phileo<\/em> love, <em>deeper<\/em> <em>eros<\/em>-type of love.\n\n<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Yes; because really, we <em>long<\/em> for that deep connection. We long for it from the Lord, and we long for it with each other, just a soul-level connection that we cannot have without the Lord, really.\n\nOne of my favorite quotes on this is Tim Keller; he says this: \u201cTo be loved but not known is comforting, but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is a lot like being loved by God. It is what we need more than anything. It liberates us from pretense, humbles us out of our self-righteousness, and fortifies us for any difficulty life can throw at us.\u201d\n\nWe need the <em>courage<\/em> to go deeper into the unknown parts of our lives. Greater intimacy in marriage and greater intimacy with the Lord go hand in hand, and it takes courage to peel back the layers and let someone in, and also love into those layers\/love through those layers, just like you were talking about with the onion.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>We want to talk about <em>three<\/em> ways that we can actually pursue that; [so] that when we hit those layers in our lives\u2014which I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve hit some during this past year\u2014\u201cHow do we pursue these deeper types of intimacy with the Lord and with one another?\u201d\n\nThe first one is\/the first pathway would be: \u201cEmbrace being fully loved and fully known by God in deeper ways. It is entering the deeper parts of your own story with the Lord. Psalm 139 is one of those [Psalms] where David goes on and on about the security we have and us being fully known by the Lord: He hems us in behind and before; He knows the deepest parts of our lives; we were created in our mother\u2019s womb\/He knits us in that place; His thoughts are too vast for us. As he reflects on all those things, he gets to the end of that Psalm, and then in verse 23 of Psalm 139, he says, \u201cSearch me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts; and see if there be any grievous way in me; and lead me in the way everlasting.\u201d\n\nOut of that security of knowing\u2014\u201cGod, You know everything already. You know fully everything about Meg; You know fully everything about me,\u201d\u2014out of that place of You knowing all of that\u2014\u201cOkay, Lord, in that security, knowing You love me, search me. I offer myself up to You anew. Whatever\u2019s happening in my life, Lord, I want to offer myself up to You, surrender, and go into those deeper places with You, so You can lead me in the way everlasting.\u201d\n\nWe\u2019ve been reading this year, really our favorite book of 2020, which is <em>Gentle and Lowly<\/em> by Dane Ortlund. He quotes lots of Puritans throughout the book. He quotes John Bunyan, and John Bunyan\u2019s really talking about how we tend to deflect Christ\u2019s assurances. He says we often say:\n\n\u201cNo, wait, God; You don\u2019t understand. I\u2019ve really messed up in all kinds of ways.\u201d And Christ responds, \u201cI know.\u201d\n\n\u201cBut You know most of it, sure, certainly more than others see; but there\u2019s perversity down inside of me that is hidden from everyone.\u201d And Christ says, \u201cI know it all.\u201d\n\nWe respond, \u201cWell, the thing is, it isn\u2019t just my past; it\u2019s my present, too.\u201d And Christ says, \u201cI understand.\u201d\n\n\u201cBut I don\u2019t know if I can break free of all this anytime soon.\u201d And Jesus responds, \u201cThat\u2019s the only kind of person I\u2019m here to help.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe burden is heavy, and heavier all the time\u201d; and Jesus responds, \u201cThen let Me carry it.\u201d\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s too much for me!\u201d And Christ responds, \u201cNot for Me.\u201d\n\n\u201cYou don\u2019t get it. My offenses aren\u2019t directed towards others; they\u2019re against You.\u201d \u201cThen I\u2019m the only One most suited to forgive you.\u201d\n\n\u201cBut the more of the ugliness in me You discover, the sooner You\u2019re going to get fed up with me.\u201d And Christ responds, \u201cWhoever comes to Me I will never cast out.\u201d\n\nBunyan concludes: \u201cThis promise was provided to answer all objections, and it does answer them.\u201d\n\n<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Yes, it\u2019s a rock-solid promise; this <em>is<\/em> the gospel. I mean, I love that; it\u2019s so beautiful. It reminds me of Romans 8:38: \u201cFor I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.\u201d\n\nThat is a ginormous promise\u2014that nothing: no sin in my own heart, no disappointment, no fears, no doubts\/and all those things just listed\u2014nothing can separate us from the love of Christ.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes.\n\nThat leads to our second point, that says: \u201cIf we\u2019re going to pursue deeper and deeper layers of intimacy with one another, it first starts with, \u2018How much do I let in my spouse?\u2019\u201d We all kind of have those decisions to make of: \u201c\u2026to what extent?\u201d I mean, we delight in being fully known and fully loved\u2014we say with our mouth\u2014but as life goes on, as we get in ruts, as something surprises us\u2014like doubts that may surface in our lives\u2014do we keep going in and being fully known with our spouse and experience being fully loved in the ways that Christ empowers us to be in those deeper places?\n\nThe second point is simple; but yet, it\u2019s true: \u201cWe have to invite our spouse into those fully known and fully loved layers.\u201d God already fully knows them and loves them, and we invite our spouses into those places to disclose the deeper, unknown places that are becoming known; so that we can grow together and so that intimacy continues to cultivate.\n\nEphesians 4:2-3 says, \u201cBe completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.\u201d Implied in a marriage, we are wired to bear with one another in love\/in <em>agape<\/em> love in the hard layers in our lives. We are made to have unity in the Spirit\u2014the same Spirit that\u2019s in Meg; the same Spirit that\u2019s in me\u2014we are wired in order to have intimacy with the same Spirit so that there would be a bond of peace.\n\nPeace doesn\u2019t mean there\u2019s not tumultuous things happening in our lives; but there is the peace of having God\u2019s presence with us and experiencing that, in that, together.\n\n<strong>Meg: <\/strong>Yes; honestly, our oneness grows as we invite the other person in even more. I think\/you know, it\u2019s kind of coming to terms with the obvious: that David cannot read my mind. When I was going through that, and wrestling with those things, he can\u2019t read my mind and he can\u2019t read my heart; the Lord certainly can, but he <em>can\u2019t<\/em>. So our oneness\u2014I think, even this summer, reflecting back to how we were drifting apart a little bit\u2014it\u2019s because even though\/I think, because were together all the time, I started to assume: \u201cWell, he should know that I\u2019m irritated by that,\u201d or \u201cHe should know that I wanted to do this.\u201d\n\nI will never forget, when were getting married, my older brother, who was already married at the time, he was like, \u201cMy one piece of advice is: if you want David to do something, you need to tell him. If you\u2019re sitting there, and you just cooked dinner; and you would like for him to do the dishes\u2014and he says, \u2018Hey, do you want me to do the dishes?\u2019\u2014don\u2019t say, \u2018No!\u2019\/say, \u2018Yes,\u2019\u2014because he doesn\u2019t know what you want him to say.\u201d It was kind of revolutionary. It seems so simple, but it\u2019s <em>so true<\/em>. I think, sometimes, we <em>assume<\/em> that he\u2019s going to know this about me\u2014because we\u2019re here; we\u2019re together; we\u2019re so close; and we are one\u2014but yet, that doesn\u2019t equal knowing everything without me saying it.\n\nI think it\u2019s a choice. Just like I have to say, if I want him to do the dishes\u2014I have to tell him if I\u2019m sad, or I\u2019m hurting, or I\u2019m feeling lonely or disappointed, or joyful and excited about something\u2014it\u2019s learning to invite him in by taking that risk, and taking the walls of my heart down, and letting him see what\u2019s really going on.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>We have to choose to let our spouse in\u2014which is so simple, and it\u2019s 101 stuff\u2014but as life takes its course, which this year certainly life has taken its course, grace allows us to invite our spouse in without having shame, and go into those places, and invite them into those places.\n\n<strong>Meg: <\/strong>So true. I was just thinking about how the first point\u2014of being fully known and fully loved by the Lord\u2014really helps us believe and be rooted in that grace that allows us to invite our spouse in.\n\nThe third thing is that we would pursue our spouse to fully know them and lavish them with love. I think the second one is more about inviting our spouse in, and the third one is taking active steps to pursue the heart of your spouse. It\u2019s entering into the deeper spaces of your spouse\u2019s heart and life and pursuing into those places. Because of what Christ has done, and because of His great lavish love for us, this is possible.\n\nI love\/there are <em>so many<\/em> verses on God\u2019s love for us and how He calls us to love one another, but I\u2019m going to quickly read through a few:\n\nJohn 13:34 says: \u201cA new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another,\u201d with that lavish love.\n\nJohn 15:12: \u201cThis is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.\u201d\n\nJohn 15:17: \u201cThese things I command you so that you will love one another.\u201d\n\n1 John 4:11: \u201cBeloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.\u201d\n\nThe last verse, 1 John 3:11: \u201cFor this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.\u201d\n\nThe <em>greatest<\/em> thing about this is that\u2014not only does Jesus model so perfectly for us and we can experience that oneness with Him\u2014but He also empowers us to do it. He doesn\u2019t just tell us to love and hope that we\u2019re going to do it on our own\u2014because I don\u2019t know about you, but I fail miserably when I\u2019m trying to love David on my own, and show him all the things that he needs and he\u2019s wired to have\u2014but the Lord gives us the Holy Spirit. Through Him, we can love in a way that frees us up to be kind when we\u2019re not able to on our own, to show kindness, and love, and peace, and all of those things. That, to me, is just\/I am so grateful; and it\u2019s the only way that I think we can experience oneness the way that God designs us to.\n\n<strong>David: <\/strong>Yes, God designs us to love one another like He loved us. That\u2019s only possible by us, not being self-reliant to try harder, but us surrendering and getting on our knees and going, \u201cGod, I need Your help to be able to love like You love and pursue Meg, being fully known and fully loved, and experiencing that from me.\u201d He\u2019s the only One that truly fully knows every part of Meg and fully loves her with perfect love; but I get to pursue her, by the power of the Holy Spirit, and give her glimpses of God\u2019s love in a tangible way, us together, going into those places.\n\nBut often, it seems like we want the fruit of companionship without the demands of genuine intimacy, which takes us back to the onion and where we started. We get to those layers; we go, \u201cOh, man, this is hard.\u201d Sometimes, we don\u2019t even realize we\u2019re at that hard level and we\u2019re just kind of bumping up against it; but when we realize it, like we did this past summer, we\u2019re like: \u201cOkay, this takes <em>agape<\/em> love layers. This takes dependence upon His Spirit to be able to enter in together.\u201d\n\nThis takes risk; this takes courage and some steps of faith to know how we\u2019re loved:\n\nFirst point: to be able to open ourselves up, again, and know, \u201cOkay, God, You fully love me and know me. I invite You into the deeper places. Help me go deeper through this layer.\u201d\n\nSecondly: to be able to invite someone else in.\n\nAnd then thirdly: to be able to pursue being fully known and fully loved.\n\nThat\u2019s what we get to do: know ourselves more, invite our spouse in, and then pursue our spouse ourselves, with a Holy Spirit divine type of power and love.\n\nI just would say, as we begin to close, remember this and remember the power of the analogy of the onion. The great thing is, as you go through those <em>agape<\/em> layers, better <em>eros<\/em> is on the other side; because that deep emotional and spiritual connection happens. Man, you begin to unlock something and deeper levels of <em>eros<\/em> intimacy that comes along with deeper levels of spiritual and emotional connection.\n\n<strong>Meg: <\/strong>It\u2019s true; very true.\n\nOne last thing that has been so helpful for us through the years is to set ourselves up like the letter \u201cM.\u201d If I\u2019m to\u2014let\u2019s say this is me, and this is this side of the \u201cM\u201d [left side of the \u201cV\u201d\u2014this is God right here [the side of the \u201cM\u201d], and He is the anchor on both sides of our marriage\u2014we\u2019re kind of like the \u201cV\u201d in the middle. God is over here [on the left], and I\u2019m leaning on Him\u2014He is where I am getting all of my stability; I\u2019m rooted and grounded in Him\u2014and David is, too, over there [right side of the \u201cV\u201d]; but we\u2019re still one.\n\nThis is one letter here, and we\u2019re deeply connected; we\u2019re together. Oneness is being together\u2014but it\u2019s being rooted in the Lord first and continuing to grow in both of those places\u2014because ultimately, God is the One who knows us fully; He\u2019s the only One who can ever know us in that complete full way and love us perfectly. But marriage allows us to enter in and love each other in a beautiful, amazing way.\n\nWe would just say, in closing, to remember that God loves us in a way that we can\u2019t love each other; and yet, He calls us to love in the power that He gives us to love deeper than we can imagine.\n\n[Studio]\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>You\u2019ve been listening to David and Meg Robbins, our president of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, on the <em>Love Like You Mean It<\/em> virtual cruise. Boy, they got into it. If anything good has happened in the last year\/this COVID year\u2014where many of us did what we just did, watching\/[listening to] this message; we\u2019re sitting at our homes, where we\u2019ve sort of been locked down\u2014we had a chance to go deeper in our relationship or pull away. Their challenge was: \u201cLet God grow you deeper.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I love that; because they talked about going deeper in our heart, in our spouse\u2019s heart, and Jesus\u2019 heart as well. All three of those are really important. And I just love David and Meg. I mean, they\u2019re just fun to listen to; they\u2019re great to be around; and they\u2019re great leaders.\n\nSo let me ask you: \u201cAs you\u2019ve listened to this, what could our call to action be? What do you think?\u201d\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>The first thing I think of is something we teach at the FamilyLife <em>Weekend to Remember<\/em><sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, and that\u2019s level-five communication; that\u2019s what they were talking about. Going deeper means I\u2019m going to go down to level five, which means I\u2019m going to share my <em>heart<\/em>. Level three or level two is\u2014I\u2019m sort of superficial\u2014and you can be that way with some people in your life. But level five in a marriage\u2014\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>It\u2019s not every minute of the day.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>No, but it does mean that I\u2019m going to reveal\u2014my heart, my struggles, my doubts, my weakness\u2014with the most important person in my life, which is my spouse.\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes.\n\n<strong>Dave: <\/strong>It\u2019s scary to go there! That\u2019s what they were talking about\u2014that\u2019s deep, and it\u2019s easier to live in superficial-land\u2014but man, if there\u2019s one person you want to go deep with, it\u2019s your spouse and your King\/your Lord. The benefits of going there, as scary as it is, are intimacy\u2014not only with God\u2014but with your spouse; so it\u2019s worth it.\n\nI would challenge, especially the men\u2014I think women go there easier; maybe I\u2019m wrong, but I know you do\u2014so I would challenge the men: \u201cShare something <em>real<\/em>; share something <em>scary<\/em> with your spouse today, and ask God to meet you and take you deeper.\u201d\n\n<strong>Ann: <\/strong>It doesn\u2019t have to be necessarily about your marriage, but what you\u2019re facing in life and what you\u2019re feeling in life. That\u2019s a good challenge; thanks.\n\n<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I can imagine that, for some people, the thought of sharing something that\u2019s been hidden\/something that\u2019s been kept under the covers, that can feel scary and threatening. You wonder if you\u2019re safe. I think the question for you is: \u201cWhat can I do to help my marriage become the kind of safe place, where we can be transparent?\u2014where we can be what Genesis 2 talks about, naked and unashamed with each other.\u201d\n\nIf you\u2019d like to hear the complete message from David and Meg Robbins, called \u201cIntimacy from the Depths,\u201d you can go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com. The message is available for download there. Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com.\n\nDavid and Meg presented this message as a breakout session on FamilyLife\u2019s 2021 <em>Love Like You Mean It<\/em> virtual marriage cruise. The good news is the cruise in 2022 will not be virtual! It will be in real life, IRL. We\u2019re going to be face to face with one another on the cruise, and we\u2019d love to have you join us.\n\nEvery year that we\u2019ve done the <em>Love Like You Mean It<\/em> marriage cruise, it has been a sellout; and this year\u2019s cruise is starting to sell out as well. We have a limited number of cabins still available. This is a <em>great<\/em> week for you to reserve your cabin, because we have a Back to Cruising special that we\u2019ve put together for <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> listeners. It ends on Monday; you can call 1-800-FL-TODAY to reserve your cabin on the cruise. If you need more information, go to our website, FamilyLifeToday.com, and click on the link you find there. Join us Valentine\u2019s week of 2022: the <em>Love Like You Mean It<\/em> marriage cruise. 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