You know that moment when your head feels like it’s going to explode from pure ecstasy of pleasure? When the tingling sensation begins to slowly radiate in your loins and somehow, your toes curl, the sensation snakes its way from your toes, through your veins, up into your spine, past your chest and straight into your brain? In that moment, you’re not thinking about anything. You’re not thinking about the pain in your back. You’re not thinking about your late rent or mortgage. You’re not thinking about your children. You’re not thinking about your job, neither are you thinking about the many degrees and accolades you’ve accumulated in your life time. In those few seconds of ecstasy, all you are experiencing is the purest and highest ascension a human-being can attain in their lifetime! It is usually a whole body experience like none other.
To achieve that point of unadulterated pleasure, there’s a process that—usually—involves another person. These moments of intimacy, exploring every intricate part of each other’s bodies and listening to one another’s desires can only be possible when involved parties willingly and intentionally release their bodies to fully participate without an inkling of distraction. In Biblical terms, this process is called To Know.
In fact, the word KNOW is often used in the Bible to describe intimacy between two people. For example, Adam knew Eve and she conceived (Genesis 4:1). In other words, Adam explored Eve so much so that he reached a state of orgasm, ejaculated and that led to conception…life.
The Hebrew translation for this word KNOW is YADA. Interestingly, there are Bible verses (Ephesians 1:17, Ex. 33:13, John 8:32, Isaiah 55:6, James 4:8, Philippians 3:10, and so many more) where KNOW was translated from YADA. Having said all these, one might wonder if this means having an orgasm equates to knowing God…lol. That isn’t the point here.
To know God requires that we give a much higher level of undivided, willful and intentional attention we give to our partners. We are called to release our body, soul and spirit willingly and intentionally into full participation in the place of interaction with God. Just as we aren’t thinking about the back pain, the late rent/mortgage, the children or the job in those unadulterated moments of pleasure, to know God requires lost focus on earthly things.
To YADA God is to feed your body, soul and spirit into His presence and psyche; to YADA God is to become so tuned to His spoken word and how they caress, correct and congeal your innermost being.
Knowing God spans beyond skimming through the Bible, attending church on Sunday or any day of the week for that matter. Nah! Knowing God is yearning, desiring, and longing to feel every crevices of His presence without distractions just like Paul mentioned in Philippians 3:10 (That I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death).
What happens when we truly KNOW/YADA God? Remember the orgasmic feeling an individual experiences when they’ve completely, willingly and intentionally surrendered their bodies to the touch of their partner? It is an experience of the purest and highest ascension any human can experience in the supernatural realm! You’re unbothered by the craziness of earthly shenanigans just as Jesus was when he slept calmly in the boat (Matthew 8:24) while a violent storm threatened to capsize it.
Knowing God does not automatically exempt us from life’s struggles. We are bound to face those storms. But YADA’ing God gives the solid assurance come what may, He alone can bring me through into the purest and highest ascension of freedom.
Shalom