{"id":5984,"date":"2021-03-22T09:49:31","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T09:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2021-03-22T09:49:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T09:49:31","slug":"%ef%bb%bfthe-omnipresence-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=5984","title":{"rendered":"\ufeffThe Omnipresence of God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Omnipresence of God<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John MacDuff,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhere shall I go from Your Spirit? Where shall I flee from Your presence?\u201d Psalm 139:7<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The omnipresence of God! How baffling to any finite comprehension! To think that above us, and around us, and within us\u2014there is Deity\u2014the invisible footprints of an Omniscient, Omnipresent One!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHis Eyes are in every place!\u201d On rolling planets\u2014and tiny atoms; on the bright seraph\u2014and the lowly worm; roaming in searching scrutiny through the tracks of immensity\u2014and reading the dark and hidden page of my heart! \u201cAll things are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O God! shall this Your Omnipresence appall me? No! In my seasons of sadness and sorrow and loneliness\u2014when other comforts and comforters have failed\u2014when, it may be, in the darkness and silence of some midnight hour, in vain I have sought repose\u2014how sweet to think, \u201cMy God is here! I am not alone. The Omniscient One, to whom the darkness and the light are both alike\u2014is hovering over my sleepless pillow!\u201d O my Unsetting Sun, it cannot be darkness or loneliness or sadness\u2014where You are. There can be no night to the soul which has been cheered with Your glorious radiance!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSurely, I am with you always!\u201d How precious, blessed Jesus, is this, Your legacy of parting love! Present with each of Your people until the end of time\u2014ever present, omnipresent. The true \u201cPillar of cloud\u201d by day\u2014and \u201cPillar of fire\u201d by night, preceding and encamping by us in every step of our wilderness journey. My soul! think of Him at this moment\u2014as present with every member of the family that He has redeemed with His blood! Yes, and as much present with every individual soul, as if He had none other to care for\u2014but as if that one engrossed all His affection and love!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Great Builder\u2014surveying every stone and pillar of His spiritual temple;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the Great Shepherd\u2014with His eye on every sheep of His fold;<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the Great High Priest\u2014marking every tear-drop; noting every sorrow; listening to every prayer; knowing the peculiarities of every case: no number perplexing Him\u2014no variety bewildering Him; able to attend to all, and satisfy all, and answer all\u2014myriads drawing hourly from His Treasury\u2014and yet no diminution of that Treasury\u2014ever emptying, and yet ever filling, and always full!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jesus! Your perpetual and all-pervading presence turns darkness into day! I am not left un-befriended to weather the storms of life\u2014Your hand is from hour to hour piloting my frail vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The omnipresence of God\u2014gracious antidote to every earthly sorrow!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Omnipresence of God John MacDuff, \u201cWhere shall I go from Your Spirit? Where shall I flee from Your presence?\u201d Psalm 139:7 The omnipresence of God! How baffling to any finite comprehension! To think that above us, and around us, and within us\u2014there is Deity\u2014the invisible footprints of an Omniscient, Omnipresent One! \u201cHis Eyes are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-macduff","category-gods-attributes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5985,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions\/5985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}