In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, the awareness of God's presence.

Where is God in your life?

You say, well, he's not in my life. Well, is that the way you want it? If you

decide you don't want God in your life, he's not going to force himself on you, but you don't

know what you're missing. Or you may say, well, I'll tell you about God in my life. Sometimes I

feel he's there and sometimes I don't.

Sometimes I'm close to him. Sometimes I'm distant. Well, what's going on when you feel close to him?

Well, he's meeting your needs and you're in church, you read the scripture, and everything's sort of

going your way. What is it that makes you feel he's distant?

Is it because something's missing in your life?

There's some needs you don't feel like he's exactly working on to your best advantage?

What makes you feel this distance from Almighty God when he says that he's everywhere and he is.

In other words, when you look up in the sky at night and you study a little bit of astronomy

and you begin to see all the planets and how absolutely perfect their schedule is

in relating to each other and all the fantastic things

beyond their comprehension. There is a God and he's in charge and he's in control and everything

is going the way he wants it to go. Down here on earth, we just make all kinds of messes of things. But those of us who trust him,

we have an awareness of him that others do not have. Why do you want to live your life apart from a loving

sovereign God who knows all he's omniscient, has all power, he's omnipotent, and he's omnipresent, which means

that he is everywhere. But a better way to say that is that everywhere is in his presence.

Somebody says, well, is God over yonder, over yonder, back yard, not yon. Listen, no, all of that

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