God is omnipresent. Omnipresent means to be at all places at once. Try to imagine this. God is right next to you, under you, above you, around you, and inside of you all at once. Some would imagine Him as a cloud that penetration and covers everything. Others may imagine Him as a large intangible person. Everyone has their own way of trying to comprehend Him ability to be everywhere at once. Let us imagine Him as a cloud of invisible mist, covering everything and going through everything.
Now, imagine God in every crack of every place all over Earth. He is everywhere. Deeper than the Grand Canyon, higher than Mt. Everest, and everywhere in between at the same time. Now, imagine He fills the universe. Even deeper than we can see, even farther than we can imagine. He fills everything. Now, This is a good way to imagine Him being everywhere; but this is only a part of omnipresence. Now, imagine that gas cloud that fills everything filling everything throughout time. The gas cloud is there in the beginning and there at the end, but not effected by time. It is equally throughout time all at once.
This is what we can understand about God's omnipresence. He is everywhere in space and time all at once. He is in Heaven and Earth, in the beginning and end, in the now and in the later, in our room and across the globe, with our parents and with our children all at once. He transcends time so He is not limited to it. He has no limits. He is in all places and times at once.
We cannot limit God. He is far beyond our comprehension. He is not bound to limitations like us. He is beyond it. There is one large benefit from His omnipresence that we all can find comfort in. His omnipresence works with His faithfulness.
He is everywhere that you go when you go and everywhere that you do not see. He knows everything and He sees everything as it happens. He is in our future as well as our present, so there is no way that something can hurt us. He is in our past as well as our present, so He knows how to comfort us.
Lately, I have been speaking of the attributes of the true God. This quote from A. W. Tozer's The Knowledge of the Holy may help clarify What I have been saying for the past week. "In studying any attribute, the essential oneness of all the attributes soon becomes apparent. We see, for instance, that if God is self-existent He must be also self-sufficient; and if He has power He, being infinite, must have all power. If He possesses knowledge, His infinitude assures us that He possesses all knowledge. Similarly, His immutability presupposes His faithfulness. If He is unchanging, if follows that He could not be unfaithful, since that would require Him to change. Any failure within the divine character would argue imperfection and , since God is perfect, it could not occur. Thus the attributes explain each other and prove that they are but glimpses the mind enjoys of the absolute perfect Godhead."
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