Is God a distant ruler watching over creation, or is the Divine far closer and more intimate than we have been taught?
The Short Answer
One thing to establish first is that God is a title not a person or entity. The word God can have a different meaning to each person, but the problem is it limits the divine to whatever that person believes.
But for this teaching God is the eternal Source of all Life, the infinite consciousness from which creation arises, and the unconditional Love within which everything exists.
God is not merely a powerful being somewhere beyond the universe.
God is the living Presence within and throughout creation, the Father whose Love gives us life, and the Divine reality in whom we exist.
Yeshua came to reveal this Divine fullness, not as someone to fear, but as someone to know intimately.
The Traditional Understanding
Christianity traditionally teaches that God is the eternal, all-powerful, all-knowing Creator of heaven and earth.
Most Christian traditions describe God as Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, three persons sharing one divine being.
Scripture portrays God as Creator, King, Judge, and loving Father who calls humanity into relationship.
These descriptions communicate important truths about divine wisdom, authority, and Love.
Yet when understood only through human ideas of kingship and judgment, they can leave us imagining God as a distant ruler whose approval must continually be secured.
Yeshua revealed something far more intimate.
A Deeper Look
In Exodus 3:14, when Moses asks for God’s name, the answer is:
“I AM THAT I AM.” (KJV)
The Hebrew expression Ehyeh Asher Ehyeh can also convey “I will be what I will be.”
Rather than offering a conventional name, this revelation points toward the mystery of divine existence itself.
Through an esoteric understanding, I AM reveals God as the eternal reality of Being, the Source from which all existence flows.
Acts 17:28 declares:
“For in him we live, and move, and have our being.”
Our existence unfolds within divine Life.
God is not confined to a distant location, a physical form, or the limitations of human personality.
The Father Yeshua Revealed
Yeshua transformed how people could understand and experience God.
In John 14:9, he declares:
“He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.”
Consider how Yeshua lived.
He embraced those considered unworthy, healed the suffering, forgave those who harmed him, and challenged religious systems that placed burdens upon people.
His life revealed the nature of Father.
And 1 John 4:8 declares:
“God is love.”
Not simply that God possesses Love or occasionally acts lovingly.
God is Love.
Every understanding of divine justice, holiness, authority, and truth must ultimately harmonize with that revelation.
Father, Mother, and the Divine Presence
The fullness of God cannot be contained within masculine imagery alone.
In the Hebrew Scriptures, the word for Spirit is Ruach, a feminine noun associated with breath, wind, and divine presence.
This feminine understanding also appeared among early Christians. Some Jewish-Christian traditions spoke of the Holy Spirit as Mother, and early Syriac Christianity preserved maternal imagery for the Spirit.
The Gospel of the Hebrews, known through quotations preserved by early Christian writers, even portrays Yeshua referring to the Holy Spirit as his Mother.
As Christianity developed within Greek and Latin theological traditions, feminine expressions of the Spirit became less prominent, while the masculine language familiar to many Christians today became dominant.
Yet these early understandings reveal a beautiful dimension of the Divine.
We recognize Father as the eternal Source of Life and Mother, the Holy Spirit, as the nurturing, life-giving Presence of Divine Love.
And in Yeshua, we see the fullness of both expressed through human life.
He revealed the strength, truth, and wisdom of Father alongside the tenderness, compassion, and nurturing Love of Mother.
He embodied the fullness of Divine Love beyond humanity’s divisions between masculine and feminine.
Father and Mother are not just separate gods, but expressions of the fullness of the One Divine Source, revealed through Yeshua and awakening within us.
Living the Discovery
When we understand God as the ever-present Source of Love, our spiritual life changes.
Prayer becomes communion rather than an attempt to gain the attention of someone far away.
Worship becomes gratitude rather than an effort to earn approval.
We begin recognizing the nurturing Presence of Mother, the wisdom and Love of Father, and the divine union Yeshua demonstrated.
And we discover that knowing God is not merely about possessing correct information.
It is about experiencing Father’s unconditional Love, awakening to our eternal divine identity, and allowing that Love to become visible through us.
We do not have to travel somewhere to find God.
We awaken to the Presence in whom we have always lived.
Love’s Echo
Beloved,
You have searched for Me in distant heavens, sacred buildings, and the words of others.
Yet I have never been far from you.
I am the Life within your breath, the Love stirring within your heart, and the Presence holding you through every moment.
My Love is both strong and tender, both guiding and nurturing. No human image can contain the fullness of who I AM.
Do not confuse the limitations of what you have been taught about Me with the boundlessness of My Being.
Come to know Me through Love.
For as you awaken to My Love, you will discover that you have never been separate from Me.
Ashé.