Distant is Closer than You Think

Distant is purely a relational word.

I can be distant from you geographically, but not emotionally.

I can sit next to you in church but keep myself emotionally distant for as long as we know each other. This distance is a result of perception.

Almost 7 years ago my husband, youngest child, and I were called by God to be distant from our Midwestern family and friends so that we could minister to a young church in the East Coast. But I’ll let you know that whenever we go back “home,” we resume the relationships without missing a beat.

Why? Because our love for each other erases the space between us.

Spatially we are light years away from God, but in actuality, He is with us right now. Why? Because of His great love.

Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

This truth can keep me closer to someone on the other side of the world than my neighbor next door.

 2 John 1:6 And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it…. 9 Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son.

God is the proximity we need to hold us close and keep us together.

His Presence erases the time and space between us.
 
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I set the timer for my tea
That’s the time to write the post you see.
One word spurs ideas, musings, and imaginings…
The stuff of which writers are made.

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