About letting God be within you…
Exodus 33:14 The LORD replied, "My Presence will go with you, and I will
give you rest." (NIV)
In our world that is so engineered, wired, interactive, and instant, we
sometimes have the idea God can be made real or reached by human actions. We
cannot get to God by climbing a mountain. We cannot get to God by going to a web
site, or by any other means of human action except one. The one human action,
that is really not a behavioral action but a spiritual action, is letting God be
within us. Letting God be within you is the result of the spiritual action of
letting God fully love you. When you take this spiritual action, you let down
all of your defenses so you really feel His love and you really know His love.
God is with you all the time. God lives within you. Within you is where you find
His kingdom. To find God, you cannot grasp ahold of a physical thing. To find
God, you must let the barriers that keep you apart from God crumble away. If
there is one barrier to reaching God that is common to all people, that barrier
is sin. Our sin is the barrier that keeps us apart from God. Our sin
separates us from God by a space infinite in size. To reach God, we must see our
sin, admit to our sin, and turn away from our sin. To reach God, we must let our
sin fall away. To find God, we must all tell the truth that sin has a grip on us
and then we must repent or turn away from our sin. For many people, repenting is
difficult. For many people, maintaining their "turned away" state is
also difficult. In addition, letting down the barriers placed between God and us
because of our sin means we are exposed. However, when we let down the barriers
caused by sin, we expose our hearts to God. We must remember that God is already
within us. When we turn away from sin and let down these sin barriers to God, we
receive His touch, and we experience His touch in an instant because God is
already within us. The system God has put in place within your heart is an
automatic system. When you turn away from your sin that separates you from God,
God automatically comes in to be with you, to touch your heart, and to tell you
in ways you will understand and accept that He loves you.
