We have known and believed that our God is a relational God. This is why the Bible says "God is love".
Because our Creator is relational, each of us is also born with a desire to relate and be close to someone. We will be hurt if we are rejected by someone that we want to relate with.
Deep in our hearts, each individual , even those whom we see and label as bad or worst sinners have that longing to relate with God, they just do not know how or they judged themselves as too bad to be able to relate. But for sure they want to be close.
Christians of course understand the essence of relationship. That is why we are taught by some preachers that when we read the Bible God is talking to us, and when we pray we talk to God. Understood in the right perspective, our relationship with God is what really matters in our Christian life. Even what we call "Christian Living" or "Christian Ethics" will be taken cared of if we are conscious of our relationship with God.
The most important question then is: How close is God to us and how close are we to Him?
Do not be too sure you know.... the answer may surprise you....
"In that day... you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you." John 14:20
In our humanity, we know what it means to be closer to someone. yet we understand it to be in terms of " togetherness" . We know we are close to each other when we are together. and the degree of closeness is tantamount to the frequency of togetherness.
To simplify it, we say , we want to be WITH each other: it is a "with-ness" relationship.
Our Lord Jesus, however, did not say that He is simply with us.... it is much closer than that... He is in us...
And how many of us run towards God and want to be with Him.?
Do you know that you are closer than being with Him , You are IN Him.
That is the GOOD NEWS: In Christ you we are adopted into the communion of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. YES you are closer than you could ever think.
REJOICE ALWAYS: You are closer than close because you are included by grace....
i think every human is close to God as human is the creation of God itself and he resides within us
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