No Place is Deprived of God’s Presence

“Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? “ declares the Lord, “Do I not fill heaven and earth?” (Jeremiah 23:24).  Stephen Charnock, in his masterly study The Existence and Attributes of God, eloquently addresses the subject of God’s omnipresence.  Here is a taste: “God knows all that is done in the most secret caverns of the heart.  No place is deprived of his presence.  He is not measured by time nor limited by space.  There is no space, not the least, where God is not wholly present.   We profess to believe this, but many live as if he were not present.  Men commit sin in the presence of God, which they would be ashamed to do before the eyes of men.  What does this really say, but that God is not present with us. If we did sincerely believe that we live every moment under God’s eyes, what attitude might we have?”  One striking example of this is Moses, who rejected all of the luxuries of the greatest kingdom of his day.  Hebrews 11:27 tells us how he was able to do this:  “he endured as seeing Him who is not seen.”