"It (faith) is nought (nothing) else but a right understanding, with true belief, and sure trust, of our Being: that we are in God, and God in us, Whom we see not."
Julian of Norwich (Ch. 54)
We are in God and God is in us. There is no separation. There is no barrier between us. There never has been and there never can be or will be. How could we be separated from the God who fills every nook and cranny of the universe, including our own selves? Everything we go through in our lives happens within God. Our failures and sins, our doubts and struggles, have happened IN the family circle of God. We have not been kicked out of the family for our failures. We have simply been hugged tighter in love. We have thought we were separated from God, far from the family circle, that either we or God was now "enemy," and that we needed to do something to get back our place in the family or get God to accept us back. Yet we have never been away! Our Trinity family has never been angry or rejected us! We have always been home with them, even if we were "out of our mind" with worry, confusion, shame and condemnation. We have felt separated, but we have never been separated. We have believed lies of rejection and condemnation, but they were simply lies, not true. The truth is we have been wrapped up in God's love, sitting on the Father's lap all along. He has been stroking our head and whispering "I love you, my dear little darling."
Our faith is simply the inner knowing of this reality: "I am in God and God is in me." That is true whether we feel it or not, whether we always remember it or not. Even if we don't always realize or sense it, deep inside we know it. Deep inside we know it is true, the most real thing about us. We are in God and God is in us. And since God is love, another way to say that is that we are in Love and Love is in us. We are in a place of permanent belonging, of complete acceptance and unconditional love. This is the foundational truth of our lives. There is no separation. There is only union. There is only love. We can be blind to it sometimes, we can imagine there is a separation between us. But still God upholds the truth within us, being our faith in us, filling our deepest being with the truth. We can hear what God Himself is saying within us, and what our own inner being echoes: we are in God and God is in us!
"You....were sometime alienated and enemies in your MIND.."
Colossians 1:21 (KJV)
"Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?"
Psalm 139:7 (NIV)
"Nothing can ever separate us from God’s love."
Romans 8:38 (NLT)
A Prayer: I cannot be away from You. What a relief! Thank You that there is never any separation between us! Thank You for being right here with me, even when I don't see it.