One of the most deceptive tactics of the enemy is to promote a perceived distance between you and God. It’s a lie! But if we buy it, and plenty of believers do, we become susceptible to all the false messages of getting closer to God like, “You need to pray more, fast more, give more, memorize more, commit more” …ad infinitum. If we think God is far off, then there is no end to what we will try and do to get closer to Him. We live under the delusion of what we “should” be doing to get closer to God instead of the freedom of what He has already done to be close to us.
Romans 7 tells us that we died to the law (the system of needing to do more), so that we could be joined to Jesus. Joined to Jesus! In Christ, you and God are as close as you can be. That doesn’t mean you always feel it or even act like it, but how you feel and what you do cannot change the fact that you are in Him and He is in you! Believing this truth is a game changer as we learn to live and grow in the atmosphere of grace where our doing is an expression of how close we are, not an attempt to get closer. That is amazing grace!
Therefore, my brethren, you also were made to die to the Law through the body of Christ, so that you might be joined to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit for God.