Digging Deeper – Where is God?

Cause #3 for Our Doubts: We Question God’s Omnipresence

Where is God, exactly?
A six-year-old would probably say, “God is in heaven.”
Good answer! Maybe even a great answer.
But is God confined to heaven?

Sometimes, I think He is—that He’s not with me in my struggle, not with me in my pain.
But that’s not true, is it?

King David (my namesake, by the way) answered this question from a very personal perspective in Psalm 139:1–10:

“O Lord, Thou hast searched me and known me.
Thou dost know when I sit down and when I rise up;
Thou dost understand my thought from afar.
Thou dost scrutinize my path and my lying down,
And art intimately acquainted with all my ways.
Even before there is a word on my tongue,
Behold, O Lord, Thou dost know it all.
Thou hast enclosed me behind and before,
And laid Thy hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is too high, I cannot attain to it.
Where can I go from Thy Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Thy presence?
If I ascend to heaven, Thou art there;
If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, Thou art there.
If I take the wings of the dawn,
If I dwell in the remotest part of the sea,
Even there Thy hand will lead me,
And Thy right hand will lay hold of me.”

We’ve all probably heard the story of the man who arrives in heaven and meets Jesus. Jesus welcomes him with a visual depiction of his life—footprints in the sand along a seashore: his footprints and Jesus’. But during a particularly difficult time, there’s only one set of footprints. The man, distraught, asks why Jesus would abandon him in his pain.

Jesus answers, full of compassion:

“It was during this time, my child, that I carried you.”

And so it is.
Our God is ALWAYS with us.
He exists outside of time and space—because He is time and space.
He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.
And He loves us too much to ever abandon us, regardless of the situation we find ourselves in.

So we can check off Cause #3 for doubting Him.
Only one remains—and we’ll look at it tomorrow!