In a sense, I don’t agree with one possible implication of what Selwyn has written today. It could be taken from his words that because God is ‘intangible and invisible’ we cannot relate to Him in the same way that we can relate with ‘tangible and visible’ physical beings. [Intangible: 1, incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch, as incorporeal or immaterial things; 2, not definite or clear to the mind; 3, existing only in connection with something else ... ]
Jesus is as real and spiritually visible to me as any person. I can ‘feel’ His presence – I can ‘see’ His love at work – I can ‘talk’ to Him – I can ‘hear’ His voice. I know He is always with me – He is never far from me – He holds my existence in His hand. I might drift off and become absorbed in my own difficulties but He will never abandon me. He will shake me out of my sleep when I am needed in the harvest field.  I don’t think you can have this sort of a relationship with a spiritually ‘invisible and intangible’ God!
I know that Selwyn is not directly addressing this aspect – but I do feel that we should be very clear about this point. Our God, is not a distant, unfeeling power. The main verse for today brings home the truth of our closeness to God (1 John 4:12, NIV): “No-one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.”Â
Spiritually, GOD LIVES IN US and that is why “we can bring about in each other’s lives a experiential awareness of what it means to be deeply loved by Him. Seeing this clearly and entering into it fully makes the task of rightly relating to others not a mere duty but a delight.”
It is ‘God within us’ that is one of the great mysteries of our Christian walk – without God’s love within us, we could never truly love another person – we would not be able to have a good and productive relationship with anyone, at anytime. Looked at from another angle – we relate to the spiritual aspects of other people - by relating to God ‘within them’, which in the main, is invisible and intangible, to the people of this world. Do you agree?
Making God more real to others
In a sense, I don’t agree with one possible implication of what Selwyn has written today. It could be taken from his words that because God is ‘intangible and invisible’ we cannot relate to Him in the same way that we can relate with ‘tangible and visible’ physical beings. [Intangible: 1, incapable of being perceived by the sense of touch, as incorporeal or immaterial things; 2, not definite or clear to the mind; 3, existing only in connection with something else ... ]
Jesus is as real and spiritually visible to me as any person. I can ‘feel’ His presence – I can ‘see’ His love at work – I can ‘talk’ to Him – I can ‘hear’ His voice. I know He is always with me – He is never far from me – He holds my existence in His hand. I might drift off and become absorbed in my own difficulties but He will never abandon me. He will shake me out of my sleep when I am needed in the harvest field.  I don’t think you can have this sort of a relationship with a spiritually ‘invisible and intangible’ God!
I know that Selwyn is not directly addressing this aspect – but I do feel that we should be very clear about this point. Our God, is not a distant, unfeeling power. The main verse for today brings home the truth of our closeness to God (1 John 4:12, NIV): “No-one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.”Â
Spiritually, GOD LIVES IN US and that is why “we can bring about in each other’s lives a experiential awareness of what it means to be deeply loved by Him. Seeing this clearly and entering into it fully makes the task of rightly relating to others not a mere duty but a delight.”
It is ‘God within us’ that is one of the great mysteries of our Christian walk – without God’s love within us, we could never truly love another person – we would not be able to have a good and productive relationship with anyone, at anytime. Looked at from another angle – we relate to the spiritual aspects of other people - by relating to God ‘within them’, which in the main, is invisible and intangible, to the people of this world. Do you agree?