Day 14 - How Close Is God

There is not the gap between you and God that you might imagine there to be. When God finished the original designing and making of man in the garden of Eden He breathed the divine life into the human shape of dried mud that lay on the ground in front of him, "and man became a living soul."

We are wonderfully formed and put together to be a witness and likeness of God. We are, in most holy respects, very like him but the container often taints the liquid to be kept in it. Fresh water stored in an iron pot will soon have a sharp taste in it while tea drunk from a glass will always taste differently than tea drunk from a china cup.

But with God and man there is little difference in likeness between the container and that which has to be held. We, that is to say God and mankind, are so near in likeness to one another that it was quite possible, with the coming of Jesus, for the Eternal Word to become Man without ceasing to be God.

Again, thirty years or more later, that same word re-ascended to the Highest heaven, and to the highest place in heaven, without deflating and dehumanising Manhood, the humanity which He had assumed, absorbed, been completely part of.

We are created So near in likeness to God that the believer may well say in the fullest meaning of the words, "I live, yet not I, but Christ."