Hebrews 13:5-6 AMP
“I WILL NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES DESERT YOU NOR GIVE YOU UP NOR LEAVE YOU WITHOUT SUPPORT, NOR WILL I IN ANY DEGREE LEAVE YOU HELPLESS, NOR WILL I FORSAKE OR LET YOU DOWN OR RELAX MY HOLD ON YOU ASSUREDLY NOT!” So we take comfort and are encouraged and confidently say, "THE LORD IS MY HELPER IN TIME OF NEED I WILL NOT BE AFRAID. WHAT WILL MAN DO TO ME?”
Every second of every day we are enveloped in God's unchanging presence, we are never alone.
Our nearness to God is not determined by our subjective feelings of closeness or distance. Even when we feel distant, we are not far from Him; and when we think we are close, we might be overlooking the fullness of His presence. From birth, whether we have lived a life as an unbeliever or believer, He has always been close at hand. (Acts 17:27-28 AMP) "that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grasp for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us. For in Him we live and move and exist that is, in Him we actually have our being." Our relationship with God is derived through internalizing His word, believing His truth, our true reality, reminding us He has drawn us to Himself. As those in Christ filled with His Holy Spirit we are in constant communion with the Lord. Our circumstances and situations bearing no influence on His abiding with us through all. Nothing in this world shifts His faithfulness away from us.
We fix our eyes on Christ looking past ourselves, our sometimes mistaken emotions, those based on mere feelings. We take every thought captive and set our minds on things above. It is through fully grasping within our hearts and minds God's grace and releasing ourselves that we can confidently take hold of what has been given us in Christ. Believing and accepting who we now are in Him, to rise above, transcending ourselves. What is seen and perceived with our physical eyes only and not the unseen, what truly matters. We cannot experience what He has made us and all He has blessed us with if we do not let go of our sense of lack and inadequacy, and accept His view of us. Remember that the "I" of our former identity has been crucified with Christ it is no longer we who live, but Christ who lives in us. (Galatians 2:20 AMP) Filling us with Himself through faith in who we now are, recreated and reborn, and thus for all time changing the way we view ourselves.
God has set in place provisions encouraging us to move on when we feel overwhelmed or overburdened. To forget what lay behind and to press on towards what lay ahead, the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13 AMP) To realize our position in Christ far surpasses what we may feel. Feelings which are not aligned with God's truth keeping us from fully experiencing Him and His power to raise us up from wherever it is we may feel we are. This is the same power that raised Christ from the dead, now working within each of us. We will never find ourselves in a position unworthy to receive His grace, mercy, and peace. Just as He is in us we are in Him, hidden in Him, seated with Him in the heavenly places, guarded and protected.
For us to take hold of everything that is right and true in Christ, we must surrender our pre-Christ self-perception over to our Father who loves us. A love we are never separated from. (Romans 8:38-39 AMP) A love which knows no bounds of width, nor length, nor height nor depth. In this love we shift our perspective from our narrow view sustaining ourselves to God's eternal view held securely within His hands.