Emphasis Preaching Journal

"In" is an interesting preposition. Jesus uses "in" to describe his relationship with the Father and also with the believer and also with the praying person. "In" is a container metaphor, as explained by Lakoff and Johnson in their book Metaphors We Live By. They write: "Each of us is a container, with a bounding surface and an in-out orientation. We project our own in-out orientation onto other physical objects that are bounded by surfaces... There are few human instincts more basic than territoriality."