![]() This verse is not about God’s omnipresence but His activity among them and with them. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way” (Exodus 33:3). For example, when the Israelites were wandering through the wilderness and were stubbornly refusing Him, God said to them, “Go up to the land flowing with milk and honey. ![]() ![]() That is, we may live as though we are independent and detached from God. Though there is never a place where God is not present, we are able to withdraw experientially from His presence. Yet, from a biblical understanding, it is not that God is identified with everything and in everything, but simply that God is everywhere. Pantheism holds that God and the universe are identical and that God is in everything He has created. This does not mean He is in everything, which is a pantheistic belief. The omnipresence of God means that God is always present and there is no limit to His presence. If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,’ even the darkness will not be dark to You the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You.” There is nowhere we can hideįrom God because God is everywhere-in the depths as well as in the heights. In Psalm 139:7-12, David rhetorically asks God, “Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? If I go up to the heavens, You are there if I make my bed in the depths, You are there…. “And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” -Matthew 28:20
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