The spirit is in us

I've always thought 'walking in the spirit' was a worse and clumsier term than 'walking with the spirit', but now I feel that the former statement holds more powerful imagery. With people, one person being 'in' someone else suggests an intimacy that comes with sexual union, whereas being 'with' someone suggests a space, however big or small, between the one person and the next. The spirit is with us, for sure, but saying the spirit is in us is a better demonstration of gods passion for us and his wanting to be as near to us as he possibly can. It also shows the degree of inseparability of God from the ones he loves. If it were just that God is with us, we could bite back and say 'yeah, from a distance', but the Holy Spirit being in us gives us no room for such doubts, for He is where we are.