God is Omnipresent.
You can run but you cant hide. This is literally true with God. We can run from God. Ignore God. Curse God. But you can never hide from God. Adam and Eve tried but were unsuccessful. How similar we are to the first male and female. If we sin we do our best to hide. Shame and Guilt always lead to the temptation to hide from God. But hiding from God is impossible for us to do because he is Omnipresent.
Omnipresent. Present means here, close to, next to. Omni means all, therefore giving the word universality.
God is everywhere here, close to everything, next to everyone. (Tozer)
God is our environment. Think of it like a fish in the sea or a bird in the air. God is always present. He surrounds. He hems us in. There is no place beyond God.
THE BIG PICTURE
What this means then is that there are bigger things going on in our lives than the rent. The fact that God is and that God is here screams to us, "Hey, you are not alive for yourself, but for me. Everything you do and say is connected to what you believe about me." This means that all we do; our total existence is taking place in God's presence.
Setting your mind and heart on the Big Picture of things will change your life. (Col 3:1-3). For example, life is short and eternity is long, or all the temporal things we strive for on earth will not be with us in eternity (Matt 6) or that God is always near us. Actively directing our thoughts towards these truths will change the way we live our lives.
Are you there God?
A man named Canon Homes of India tells of Hindu worshipers tapping on trees and stones whispering, "Are you there? Are you there" to the god they hoped might reside within. The answer is "Yes God is there", but he is not refined to a tree or stone, but is everywhere all the time and through Jesus Christ immediately accessible to every loving heart. (Tozer)
Take heart, the all-powerful and all knowing God is here and you are never alone. Stand in awe of him.
2 comments:
I think with omnipresence it's really easy to confuse God with being a pantheistic God. I mean, I like to think that as God has "breathed" life into people, perhaps he gives a part of his spirit to flesh that it may become alive, and perhaps that is our being in the image of God, and maybe that is or is not true. But to clarify, God is not the tree, but God is in the tree. The same way as well, humans are not God, but God is with/in/whatever humans. That should be comforting to know nothing ever escapes the eyes or control of God, if he is there, he sees it and is in control of it. That doesn't mean it will always be how you would prefer it, but rather how the One who knows what he's doing would prefer it. As well, just because God is not pantheistic , I don't htink that justifies an abuse of creation. I don't mean to sound too green-esque, but I think God's creation is made not for us, but for him. We are simply a part of it and we should hold it as something special as God is the one who created it (and "good" (Gen 1:31)) . Anyway, the point is: we are but mist (James 4:14), mere dust in the vast universe, and yet, this God that fills and transcends this massive creation still bothers with us (Ps 8:4). It's not that we are that worthy of God, but that God is so great his love and care and acknowledgment extends even to mere specks of dust. Think about how little you take note of individual specks of dust in your house, and yet God loves you. THat's cool.
God is in the tree????
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