This is foundational. This is the good news of the gospel. There is no separation from God. He is omnipresent. How can there be separation if he is everywhere?

This the great lie sown in the garden. The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince us that we had to somehow find our way back to the Father. He has never left us. We often are so lost in the darkness of our own lives that we cannot see him, but that does not mean he is not there.

We live in a deprivation chamber of our own selfishness and fail to recognize the God who is with us in our misery. Jesus actually said he will be with us always (Matthew 28:20), and that he is inside of us (John 14:20).

Again I ask, where is the separation? If all things were made through him (John 1:3), and he holds all things together (Colossians 1:17), he is literally the material binding the entire cosmos together. This would have to include hell.

And if that is the case, he is literally with us in our own personal hell (the one we created for ourselves).

Any separation is our choosing. We can turn away from him but he will never turn from us. In fact, he will spend eternity turning us back to him.

There are many theologies that suggest you need to earn your way back to Him. That there is a great divide between you and the divine love. They may suggest that the cross is what spans that divide. How did this thought come into being? Are our traditions greater than the promises of Jesus?

He will never leave you or forsake you. Deuteronomy 31:8, Hebrews 13:5

The Lord your god is with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9

For the Lord will not forsake his people. Psalm 94:14

If we believe in separation as a possibility, what does that say about the character of God? That he will leave us unless we perform well? Never!

It is easy to falsely believe in separation because the voice of condemnation is always louder. People will point to the cross as the ultimate separation.

“God is so holy,” people say, “he cannot be in the presence of sin. Why else would Jesus say “My God, My God, Why have you forsaken me”?”

God is in Jesus and Jesus is in God. He came to heal the sinners specifically. He dined with sinners always. His holiness has never precluded him from being in the presence of sinners.

On the Cross, Jesus was quoting Psalm 22, which began with “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me,” and ended with “For he has not despised or scorned the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.”

There is no possibility of separation from the triune God who created you just so he can pour out his love upon you. The world has tried to hide his face from you, but take heart, he has overcome the world.