God Is Omnipresent. - (Pasche)

Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.

Matthew 28,20.

In the Book of Jeremiah, in the 23d chapter, we read: “Am 

I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any 

hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the 

Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.” God is 

everywhere, so that no one can hide from Him, and no one need 

search far for Him.

God the Father is omnipresent, and so is God the Holy Spirit; 

but also God the Son. He made this promise to His Christians: 

“Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.” Of 

Him St. Paul says: “ He fills all things.” He fills all things with 

His presence in heaven and in earth. He said: “All things that 

the Father hath are Mine.”

The Triune God is inclosed nowhere, excluded from nowhere. 

He is a God at hand and a God afar off. He is above all and 

through all and in all. Therefore, wherever we are, when most 

lonesome and forsaken, God is near us; yea, He is with us always, 

hears our prayers, knows our cares. He is near us with His help 

and defense, as David sings in the 145th Psalm: “The Lord is nigh 

unto all them that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in 

truth. He will fulfil the desire of them that fear Him; He also 

will hear their cry and will save them.” And in the 23d Psalm 

he says:  "Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of 

death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art with me.”

God’s omnipresence is very consoling to us because through 

faith in Christ Jesus we are His children. We therefore do not flee 

from God and hide before our kind and loving God and heavenly 

Father, but praise and thank Him for His gracious omnipresence. 

We trust in the promise He gave to His children through the 

prophet Isaiah: “Fear not; for I have redeemed thee; thou art 

Mine. I will be with thee.”