Subtitle: The wall some believe exists between us and God

Excerpt: Satan deceives us into believing we are separated from God due to our sins, but God has always loved us unconditionally.

Author: Jane Isley

Satan tells many lies; deception is his native language. But there is one lie that sits at the very foundation of his mission: that we are separated from God from the moment we exist.

It is a lie so deeply embedded that most never question it.

So many do not understand that from the moment God spoke our names, we were already known by Him, written in the Book of Life, seen, and held.

There is no hardened wall between us and God. There is no internal work we must complete first to earn His presence, and our sins do not place us beyond His reach.

(This is not a discussion of blasphemy of the Holy Spirit; that’s an entirely different conversation.)

Satan, the great deceiver.

He uses our human reasoning to convince us that once a wrong is done, our chance is gone. He wants us to believe there are hurdles to clear, jumps to make, and requirements to meet before we can be with God.

He excels at weaponizing shame and guilt, turning them into what feels like an unbreakable barrier. Slowly, we begin to believe that we must fix ourselves first before God will ever accept us into His family.

And that is the lie.

The lie is that God does not love us in our sinful state. If that were true, Christ never would have been sent to die for humanity at all.

Here is the truth that often feels unbelievable: even in our sin, in the middle of our worst moments, Christ is not standing far off, waiting for you to turn toward Him. He is right beside you, quietly saying, “Come as you are.”

He is walking alongside every person, waiting for them to take His hand. He is not looking down on us from a distance, and there were never hurdles, impossible jumps, or borders you had to cross before coming to God.

That idea is a construct of deception.

Satan uses the tangible rules and human systems of this world to convince us that separation from God is real when it never was.

Consider Jeremiah 1:4–7, a passage quoted so often that its weight gets lost in a world of reels, captions, and sound bites.

“The word of the Lord came to me, saying, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”

“Alas, Sovereign Lord,” I said, “I do not know how to speak; I am too young.” But the Lord said to me, “Do not say, ‘I am too young.’ You must go to everyone I send you to and say whatever I command you.”

“ I formed you”

“I knew you”

“I set you apart”

“ I appointed you”

This is not the language of a God who created you at a distance.

Satan will do everything in his power to keep us trapped in the lie that we are separated from God. He openly uses shame, guilt, emotions, and our flawed human reasoning to convince people that we are distant, unworthy, or far too gone.

But the truth is the opposite. From the very beginning, God has been beside us, present in every moment, waiting for us to simply take His hand.

The wall we believe exists was never truly there. It is Satan’s greatest deception. To keep us believing we are separate from God.