God pours out His love in your heart through the Holy Spirit. He makes you understand the message of grace in Jesus Christ. Intimacy? Of the highest order. Of the deepest depths. Of the most enduring happiness. Apart from God’s self-revelation in Scripture? No way.
The Spirit’s power makes the Spirit’s message a joy in the hearts of listeners.

Does this mean that our experience of God’s care is unwavering? All Scripture and all human experience tell otherwise. We waver, drift, forget. Our vision dims. We get distracted. Our hearing gets bad. But God works over the long haul. And He uses sufferings. Hardships distract, tempt, and overwhelm us. We are told repeatedly that in fact these very things provide the context in which God’s “steadfast love” becomes better known. John Newton put it this way:

“These inward trials I design, from sin and self to set thee free,
to break thy schemes for earthly joy, that thou may’st find thy all in me.”

(Romans 5:3-5; James 1; 1 Peter 1; numerous Psalms) -- David Powlison in a tremendous article entitled Intimacy With God