St. Nikolai Velimirovic
Letter # - How God can be inside man
To a soldier of a student's brigade who asks how God can be inside man
You
asked somebody, "where is God?" And you got an answer that God is
inside you. And you marvel at this answer. How can that be?
Kind
of like light in a room, or like fire in a stove. When you are able to
feel God within you, you will feel and know that He is inside you, but
you will not be able to explain it to someone else. But you will look
for images in nature and then you will speak to the other person as I
speak to you: God is within me like light in a room, or a like fire in a
stove, or like air in the lungs, or like life in every creature, or
like force and love and thought inside of man. Of course, these are just
images and likenesses, and they cannot express what a man feels when
God dwells within him in His fullness. God's apostle, our spiritual
father Paul, wishes for the faithful to be filled with all fullness in
God (Eph. 3, 19). God works from within a man in two ways -- by helping
and by governing.