Originally posted on Facebook on Monday, December 5, 2022.

Some believe our savior isn't real, that we Christians worship a dead or fictitious Jesus, because He is no longer with us bodily.

But Jesus is even more real now than when He walked the earth because He has returned to what He always was –Spirit, with the Father as a member of God (John 4:24, 14:12,28).

We have Jesus more now than those who actually saw and interacted with Him in the flesh but did not believe. We who believe His Word by the gift and facilitation of the Holy Spirit truly have Him. We have Him spiritually and He is experienced in a very real way, in spirit and in truth –through loving Him (spirit) and obeying His Word (truth) [John 4:24, 14:19-23].

Having someone in a way where you cannot be separated (spiritually, because in the flesh you can be separated) and knowing them in a way that produces the effect of their presence (love, joy, peace), is more real than just perceiving them with our natural senses: sight, sound and touch.

When we have Jesus, the spiritual and eternal is more real than the physical and temporary and fruit is the verifiable evidence that even proves to the world that He and our fellowship with Him is real (John 13:35, 15:1-17).

**Note: To be clear, I do not mean to imply that Jesus was any less God when He walked the earth. I fully believe Colossians 2:9 that declares "in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily." I mean that what we could perceive and know of Him was less then than what we are able to now. Because of the awesome gift of the Holy Spirit, we can know and experience the Lord even more fully through the ever-increasing revelation of Jesus Christ as the Spirit leads us into all truth.