Living in God

In reflecting upon Sarah Young's meditation for Feb. 20 in Jesus Calling, in which she writes as though Jesus Himself were speaking directly to us and I believe that He is. God says to us in this meditation: "I reside in the deepest depths of your being, in eternal union with your spirit....I am Christ in you, the hope of Glory."  I am reminded of what the author of Acts  17: 28 says to us: ...in God we live and and move and have our being."  Years ago I was given a pencil with a fish wired to the top of it.  I was told that the meaning of this is that we live in God as fish live in water. A fish in water? It is totally dependent upon its being in the water. Apart from water, a fish dies! Its life is then over here on earth! In applying this idea to us as living in God, we, too, apart from God are nothing. Everything we are is of and in God: without being in God, we do not exist anymore than a fish out of water!

God is our sustenance! God is our life! God is our hope. Our potential to live and generate life, to expand our existence by creating new life is in God!  We can expand our life by developing our talents, fine-tuning our talents, sharing our talents--human connectedness is essential to this process.  We also expand our life by expanding and entering more deeply into relationships. Without our connectedness to others (and to God, of course) we also die, shrivel up developmentally. An infant deprived of the tender loving touch of a human being is negatively effected and, yes, will die without human intervention and loving care!

O, the wisdom of our God, in whom we live and move and have our being!  God, I believe,  is Power and Glory and positive, creative Energy, which is shared with us.