"The Lord your God is in your midst, a victorious warrior. He will exult over you with joy, He will be quiet in His love, He will rejoice over you with shouts of joy." Zephaniah 3:17
Most of the time when we hear verses like this in church, that the Lord is in our midst, we think of Him being with and among His people as if He were merely walking with us collectively. That 'where 2 or 3 are gathered' His presence is there too. But that's not what this word 'midst' means in the Hebrew.
The word in question is qereb, and it means "inner part, middle, inward part, the seat of thought and emotion."
The Lord literally dwells within you, in the innermost part of your being. When eastern religions speak of humans as being divine or having something divine within us, they are right. God does dwell within, and turning within in meditation, whether you call that spiritual part of you the presence of God or your higher self or soul, connects people to the divine in a very real way.
I love the thought that way down deep in me there is a victorious warrior who exults over me with shouts of joy and quiets me with His love.
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