Have you ever had sweet, intimate God moments? Times where God seems to be whispering His soft pursuance of your heart in the most beautiful of ways? Maybe it's the abrupt, random awakening one morning you are confused by until you catch the first glimpse of the soft brushes of orange and pink across the sky. Maybe it's the verse you randomly remember in a time you seem to need it the most. Maybe it's the song "shuffle play" seemed to know you needed to hear. Have you ever had these? Precious moments that were just between you and your Creator?

I think we need to be selfish about these moments. In the Christian culture, it's incredibly tempting to experience Jesus in such a tangible way and then run to our friends with mouths open, ready to blab about what just happened. I find myself doing this. Instead of personally mulling over what the Lord just taught me, I think about who I'm going to tell this new profound wisdom to. Maybe good-intentioned questions from Jesus-seeking friends like "What has God been teaching you lately?" have ruined intimacy between my Creator and I. Being asked this question one too many times has caused me to constantly prepare my answer. Instead of focusing on personal conviction and needed lessons from my Teacher, I focus on how spiritual and wise I might sound after I talk to someone about the huge revelation I had.

But what if these epiphanies God blesses me with are only meant for me? I'm convinced the Lord can inspire people through other's wisdom. But what if He may only want me to be baffled by His goodness?

I think I've focused too much on impressing people with godly revelations rather than being impressed by the revelatory God Himself.

Christianity has become so community focused that we may have missed out on the personal relationship aspect Jesus strives for with us. It's such a special thing to share how God has been working in one's life, please hear me. But, maybe we don't have to share everything. How wonderfully special would it be to have a handful of moments with the Creator of the Universe that no one else knows about? No one reads it in your Instagram caption. No one sees it on your Snapchat story. No one else hears about it at a coffee shop. The only ones who know are you and God. How cool?!! How special! How intimate!

Hold on to those sacred moments and be selfish with them.