we’re just as near as He.

Near, so very near to God,
Nearer, I could not be;
For in the person of His Son,
I’m just as near as He. 

Dang, let that truth reach down and grab you and transform you.  Over the past few years, this is something that I have been contemplating in my Spirit. 

How come we are just as righteous as Jesus?  How dare we say that we are close to God as His Son is? 

Well let me tell you:  Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:21 – “He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.” 

Christ was sent so that we could be the righteousness of God.  Righteousness has the image of being able to stand in the process of God, or being right before someone.  It is the image of being free from debt of someone.  If you are right before a creditor, you don’t have any thing that is owed them.  This is the glorious picture that God has given us. 

This moment right now, I just want to convey to you that God has redeemed you to Himself.  He has given you freedom and life so that you may live out of the abundance of His nature.  He wants you to grow in Him.  He wants you to do ”greater things than He did.”  He wants everything for you.  But ultimately He wants it for His glory.  He wants you, his child, to point others to Him.  So right now, read these verses and meditate on the freedom that He has given you.  It is so easy to forget that we are God’s children because we get stuck by being concerned with all the work we need to do but it is my prayer that we will let us remember God in all those moments.   

“It was freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.” - Galatians 5:1 

“But thanks be to God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching to which you were committed, and having been freed from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.”  - Romans 6:17-18

“Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, to whom be the glory forevermore.  Amen.” - Galatians 1:3-5

“He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.”  - Colossians 1:13-14

“Since then the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself [Christ] likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil; and might deliver those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.”  - Hebrews 2:14-15

“In love, He predestined us to adoption as sons [and daughters] through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.  In Him, we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches in His grace, which He lavished on us.”  - Ephesians 1:5-8