On the TV show “Ghosts,” the ghosts are able to walk through walls. This is a pretty typical convention when portraying ghosts on TV or in the movies. But on “Ghosts,” they joke about why they don’t also fall through the floor into the basement. Or why they are able to sit on chairs but not pick them up and move them.

And in one episode, a character falls in a well and is stranded there because she can’t climb up the walls. She can only walk through them into the vast nothingness of the dirt in every direction. But if she can walk through the dirt, how is she standing on dirt? Why doesn’t she fall to the center of the earth? Or why couldn’t she walk up dirt, like stairs, to the surface?

Clearly there are a lot of unanswerable questions about these ghosts because someone just made them up. The writers needed them to interact with each other so they stand on the same floors, sit on chairs, and climb stairs.

God is not a ghost like these characters, but He is a Spirit. (See John 4:24)

There is not a lot of information about what a spirit is in the Bible. It is left vague. But we do have a few clues.

As Spirit, God is everywhere, all the time. (See Psalm 139:7-10)

God doesn’t have a human body. God the Son came to earth in human form, but God the Father did not.

God is invisible to us (See Colossians 1:15), unless He chooses to reveal Himself in some way, like the cloud of smoke that led the Israelites through the wilderness or a burning bush for Moses.

“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”
‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭3‬:‭17‬ ‭CSB‬‬

Because God is Spirit, He is not limited by the dimensional or temporal restrictions of created things. There is no greater freedom than that.

Because God loves me, I can know God and have a personal relationship with Him. Through that relationship I can have freedom as well. I can have a taste of it now — freedom from my sin and its ultimate price. And I can have freedom to the full when Jesus returns.

Dear God,

Thank you for providing your word as a way to learn about you. Thank you for revealing yourself as much as my puny brain can comprehend. I look forward to the time when I can more fully understand you. In the meantime thank you for giving me what I need to live free now.