In this new world order of social distancing and isolation there is One who is closer than my skin and in the air I breathe. In the pandemic panic and anxiety, it’s easy to let this unshakeable Truth slip from our sanitized grasp. God is still on the throne. Christ is still the head over every power and authority, and He’s got this.

For quite some time, I’ve been pondering an incredible phrase from Ephesians 3:19 “filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” This phrase paints a picture of being filled to the brim, liberally supplied and lacking nothing. What a contrast with the current world of exhausted and scant supplies and empty shelves. But nothing has changed with God. The Spirit that is in me still fills and floods me with the life and power of God Himself so I lack nothing. Absolutely incredible.

Above all else, what God desires and I so desperately need this day is unceasing, intimate, holy communion with the Father and the Son. This is what I was created for, what Jesus died to restore, and what the Spirit makes true in my experience every moment of today…to the brim.

The fullness of God isn’t dispensed when I’ve prayed enough or have been spiritual enough, but all the fullness of God is available to me all the time, every moment of every day just as I am where I am. It is His power at work in my yielded trusting heart. This transcends incredible. Oh, the incredible greatness of God’s power available to us who trust Him for it!

One last incredible thought: We who have this same Spirit in us are connected and forever bound by His love and power. The Holy Spirit is the connective tissue between us and between our heart and the great heart of God. What precious gifts He has given for such a time as this.