126 – Nothing can ever separate you from God

Have you ever heard someone say, "Sin separates us from God?"

This idea goes all the way back to the story of Adam and Eve when they got kicked out of the Garden of Eden.

And it shows up lots of places in the Bible.

For example in Isaiah:
Surely the arm of the LORD is not too short to save, nor his ear too dull to hear.  But your    iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.     Isaiah 59:1, 2

And in the New Testament, the man who had been born blind and was healed by Jesus, tells the Pharisees, "We know God doesn't listen to sinners." (John 9:31  NLT)

But if God doesn't listen to sinners, we are all in trouble.

Fortunately, the Bible also gives lots of examples when God does listen to sinners, proving that we are not separated from Him, even when we make mistakes or something bad happens.

Kind David, who committed some pretty serious sins, could still say in Psalms:
Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?”
If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell, [Sheol] behold, You are there.
If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.     Psalm 139:7-10

David knew he could never be separated from God.

What Isaiah and others are saying is that when you sin, you feel separated from God, but David reassures us that God is still with us, whatever the circumstances.

To get at the heart of this issue, we need to understand the nature of God.

The prophet Jeremiah records God revealing that He is everywhere. (See Jeremiah 23:23, 24)

Since God is everywhere, there is no place you can go where God is not already present. The more we grasp this, the more we will understand that we can never be separated from God.

In this episode, I also talk about

• Feeling separated from God when others sin against you
• God rebuking the belief that you have to suffer (or be separat

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