Omnipresent - Day 5
"Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord." Jeremiah 23:23-24
Because God is a spirit, He is not limited to being in one place at one time. To describe God being everywhere at the same time, we say He is omnipresent. He is present everywhere. God reveals this about Himself in Scripture. We read in the heading above that He fills the heaven and earth. He is not only everywhere in our physical world, but He is everywhere in heaven - the spiritual world. Read Psalm 139 and you will see that there is nowhere that God is not present. He is even in Hell. It seems repulsive to think He would be there, but if He is everywhere he must be there as well. There is no possible way we would know this about God except that he chose to reveal it to us.
God is - the God who is here! He is always here, present, and no matter where we are, He is there too. This is an attribute of God and God alone. Only God is everywhere at the same time.
“Behold heaven, and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee…” 2 Chronicles 6:18
God is everywhere in His creation and beyond. He cannot be contained by space even though He fills all of the space. As we learn more about God’s creation, and how big space is it can be easy to get trapped into thinking spatially about God, to think of Him in creaturely ways. But nothing of God’s creation can constrain God because He cannot be constrained.
Sometimes we think of God being partly here and another part on the other side of the universe. When we try to imagine the omnipresence of God, we must understand that He is fully present everywhere at the same time. All of Him is here and there at the same time! But even speaking that way is a limited view of who God is. Creature words (the ones you are reading right now) can never do Him justice. We are creations of God. The universe is the creation of God. We and it are limited because we were created. God is uncreated, therefore he is unlimited, unbounded, uncontained and unconstrained. To think of God in any spatial or dimensional way is to limit God as if He were created. He is beyond our capacity to comprehend and is not like us.
"Thou thought that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee..." Psalm 50:21
" For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones." Isaiah 57:15
“Thank you, Father, and praise You! For You are worthy of to be praised. You alone are the unlimited, uncreated, and Holy God who is here. You are always present, always faithful. Amen.”
