If we do not realize we have need of something, then we will not pursue it. We will not make it a priority and a driving force in our life. Think what it is like trying to find or give a gift to someone who has no need of anything. Yet because the Father loves so much He continues to try.
Intimacy is a willingness to know and be known by others.
We are living in a season when God is trying to intimately express His love to us but many do not realize their need for it. Just let me get saved, filled with the Holy Spirit, flow in the power of God, be anointed, be healed, be provided for, have a ministry, be successful. That is what the prodigal son thought. For many of us, love means pain. Others, who raised us and should have daily used healing words, never or rarely did.