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Simply Put

Omnipresence

Simply Put

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

There is nowhere we can go to hide from the presence of God. He is nearer even than our own hearts. Today, Barry Cooper depicts the omnipresence or “all-presence” of God.

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0:00.0

Wouldn't you love to be omnipresent?

0:04.0

There's a place in my home city of London which tourists flock to.

0:08.0

It's in Greenwich and it's a long narrow indentation etched into the ground

0:12.0

which marks the prime meridian line of the world.

0:16.4

Everything on one side of the line is the eastern hemisphere of the earth and everything on the

0:19.6

other is the western hemisphere and one of the reasons people love to take pictures of

0:23.7

themselves straddling this line rather than just standing beside it is because

0:27.8

where else does a human being get to be in two places at once? One foot in the

0:32.2

east, one in the west. It's a fun illusion of course, people

0:36.2

are still very much in one place, but we love this idea that we could be in two places

0:40.9

at once. I think that's because as humans we soon

0:44.8

discover that we really aren't designed even to do two things at once let alone

0:49.3

be in two places at once and it frustrates us. It frustrates us enough that we attempt ill-advised things

0:56.1

like texting while driving or checking a wristwatch while holding a drink. Research suggests that even when we think we're multitasking or

1:04.7

focusing on two things at once, what we're actually doing is just switching our attention from

1:09.2

one thing to the other at incredible speed. In other words, we can't even mentally be in two places at once

1:15.0

let alone in any other sense. Our Creator however is not like that. He's

1:21.0

unconfined by physicality he can be everywhere simultaneously to the fullest

1:27.1

extent so God never finds himself spread too thinly no matter how vast the universe becomes or how many people on Earth call

1:36.0

out to him.

1:38.0

This is what people mean when they talk about God's omnipresence, omnipres, and presents meaning presence. He doesn't live

1:48.9

over there or over here as it says in the Book of Acts, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by hands.

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