“Search me, God, and know my heart;  test me and know my anxious thoughts.” Psalm 139:23

There are times when we wonder, “Where is God? I feel all alone.”  A most encouraging Psalm that we can read at moments like that is Psalm 139.  Listen to what just a few of the verses say:

            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.
            If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
                        even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
            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.

                                                                        Psalm 139:7-12

Though the laws of physics are much more complicated, for practical purposes we can say that two physical objects cannot occupy the same physical space at the same time. On the flip side, a single physical object cannot occupy two different physical spaces at the same time. But the Bible has a different take on these general laws.

Theologians say God is omnipresent—He is everywhere at the same time. So He can be “here” and “there.” That means we are never separated from the presence of God!  How cool it that!? Wherever we are, God is also there. 

The psalmist, David, wrote extensively about God’s omnipresence in Psalm 139:1-18. He concluded by asking God to search and know his “anxious thoughts” (verse 23). God could know David’s anxieties because He was always with David. And He is also with you and I – so He knows our “anxious thoughts” as well.

God is love, so we are never separated from God’s love, regardless of where we are or how we feel.

Though our feelings come and go, says C. S. Lewis, God’s love for us does not.