nothing between

What if there was nothing between you and God?  I think one of the great things we treasure about coming to faith in Christ is the removal of the logjam our sin has caused that blocks our relationship with the Almighty.  We have found the One who found us before we knew we even needed Him.  We had to first learn that our sin nature came as part of the package built into our human nature...as an inheritance every generation has received and then passed on to the next.  We had to first learn that we needed a relationship with a living God, a Holy God and then learn that it was impossible to have that relationship.  Impossible, that is, for us to form a bond with Him in our own strength.  We had to discover that there is a quality of life and of living that we call "eternal" that includes, but far surpasses, our brief span on earth.  We needed to know that this kind of living allows us to draw on power, direction and help from outside ourselves, outside all human relationships, outside all created or manufactured sources and even outside of the limits of time or space.  We had to lay aside all the programming we'd received from our earliest age about  "making it on our own" and "doing it our way".  But then our eyes opened and we embraced the solution to our separation from our Maker.  We acknowledged that we couldn't make it on our own.  We saw that Jesus was not only the Son of God, He was sent to rescue us because we couldn't rescue ourselves.  We admitted that we didn't really understand life...especially our own life and we didn't begin to know how to find real purpose or our eternal identify.  We dropped all barriers and were reunited with the One who had given us life and given His life that we might understand the fullness of life.  And now we know that we may be changed, but we will never really die.

 

And though nothing has ever blocked God from knowing every thought we have, every molecule of our body or every action we have taken.....now we can begin to know Him...because there is finally nothing between.

 

1 John 5:²⁰ And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us an understanding, that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal life.

 

blessings,

Rob Smith