If God is present at every point in space, if we cannot go anywhere He is not, cannot even conceive of a place where He is not, Why then has not that presence become the one universally celebrated fact of the world? The patriarch Jacob in the waste howling wilderness, gave the answer to the question. He saw a vision of God and cried out in wonder, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not. Jacob had never been for one small division of a moment outside the circle of that all-providing Presence. But he knew it not. That was his trouble, and is ours. Men do not know that God is here. What a difference it would make if they knew. The Presence and the Manifestation of the Presence are not the same. There can be the one without the other. God is here when we are wholly unaware of it. He is Manifest only when and as we are aware of His Presence. On are part there must be total surrender to the Spirit of God, for His work is to show us the Father and the Son. If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will Manifest Himself to us, and that Manifestation will be difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face. Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us God does not come from a distance upon a time to pay a brief and momentous visit to the mans soul. If you think that , you are misunderstanding it all. The approach of God to the soul or of the soul to God is not to be thought of in spatial terms at all. There is no idea of physical distance involved in the concept. It is not a matter of miles but of experience. To speak of being near to or far from God is to use language in a sense always understood when applied to our ordinary human relationships.A man may say : I feel that my son is coming nearer to me as he gets older, And yet that son has lived by his fathers side since he was born and has never been away from home more then a day or so in his entire life. He means that the boy is coming to know him more intimately and with deeper understanding, that the barriers of thought and feeling between the two are disappearing, that father and son are becoming more closely united in mind and heart. It is not the nearness of place but the nearness of relationship God is the same for all. He has no favorites in His household. All He has ever done for any of His children He will do for all of His children. The difference lies not with God but with us. A. W. Tozer Pray for all our Troops in harms way and all Veterans and their Families Search Scriptures Daily for Truth (Acts 17:11) God Bless.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 17:44:08 +0000
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