The Holy Scriptures declare that the universe is ultimately spiritual in nature. Is it a material world running all by itself? Or is it spiritual and run by unseen powers? Does the stream of existence begin and end in itself? Is there a connection between spirit and matter? The belief that God is all present within His universe answers many of our deepest questions. People of almost every culture and age have wondered what kind of universe we live in. If I take the wings of the dawn, if I dwell in the remotest part of the sea, even there Your hand will lead me (Psalm 139:7-10).
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Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. Where can I go from Your Spirit? asked King David. Few truths are taught in the Scriptures with a greater clarity than the omnipresence of God. “God is over all things” wrote one ancient writer, “under all things outside all within but not enclosed without but not excluded above but not raised up below but not depressed wholly above, presiding wholly beneath, sustaining wholly within, filling. Rabbi Paul declared to the philosophers at Athens: In Him we live and move and have our being (Acts 17:28). God is our environment as water is to the fish and air is to the birds. In His infinitude He surrounds the finite creation and contains it.
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The Lord is infinite and He knows no limits. All other beings, including angels, are restricted to a given place at a given time. Material things occupy some part of space, but not all of it. The finite mind has a problem with the omnipresence of God. God is bigger than the universe, and beyond it, and yet at the same time He is “Immanuel” – God with us. The word “present” means “here,” “close to,” or “next to,” and the prefix “omni” means “all” and gives it universality. Another aspect of the infinity of God regarding space is described by the omnipresence of God. He is larger, greater, above and beyond the physical universe.