"And therefore it is that there may nor shall be right nought atwix God and man's Soul."
Julian of Norwich (Ch. 53)
God has breathed the breath of life, His very own Spirit, into humanity to give us life. Thus, God's Spirit is the deepest thing about us, our deepest and true identity, making us who we are. If God's own Spirit is the ground of our being, the substance making us a person, how can we be separate from God? That would be like saying we could be separate from our own person or self. The way God has set up creation, creating our bodies from earth and our souls from His own Spirit, means that we are never separated from God. Our spirit comes from His Spirit as its source just as a tree branch grows out of the main tree trunk or root. The branches are one with the tree and are an expression of the tree, yet the branches are individual branches with their own unique shape. We too are expressions of God's being and creativity, made in His image and likeness, yet at the same time we have our own unique personality and shape. We grow out of God, in a sense. We are branches on the tree of God. There is nothing between us at all. We are in unity. We are one with God in our inner person, our spirit and God's Spirit, just by the fact of how He created us.
We may sometimes feel there is a wall or separation between us and God, but it just isn't true. There is nothing between us and God. Our feelings don't change the fact of our oneness with Him. Our actions don't separate us from Him, either. Nor do our wayward and doubtful thoughts, our angry or selfish words, remove us from His presence. Nothing we could think, say, believe or do could ever separated us from Him. He is here to stay. He set up our creation in such a way that He is permanently invested in His created children, permanently present as our inner source. We could not even exist without Him inside us as our life source and "root." We could no more separate ourselves from God than we could separate ourselves from our own DNA. He is part of what makes us human. A human is a being that has God's own Spirit inside. That's just who we are; we are "God-based" or "God-inside" beings. We can know we have God within us just by existing, just by being a created person. It is just the way He designed us. He is part of our very makeup as humans. He isn't going anywhere. We have Him upholding us, living in us, supporting us, accepting us, no matter what. This is real Love! This is the real God! He is "all in," committed to be with us forever.
"There is in humans a Spirit, the breath of the Almighty, that gives them understanding."
Job 32:8 (GW)
"Spirit can be known only by spirit - God's Spirit and our spirits in open communion."
1 Corinthians 2:14 (MSG)
A Prayer: I love knowing that there can be nothing between us, ever, because You are the innermost part of me, making me who I am.