Tuesday, March 18, 2008

God is everywhere

God is omnipresent.

As God was with us from our conceptions, knitting us together in the safe place of our mothers wombs, God was also with the woman in our workplace who scolds you to keep your religious comments to yourself, and advocates a womans 'right' to abortion.

As we feel God call in our deep, "here I am", causing wonder and amazement, causing doubts about worldly values and ambitions, God is also with our company CEO's, calling in their deep, "here I am", prodding them to question their worldy values and ambitions.

As God says to His children, the seed of Abraham, those under the covenant, bound to Him by Christ, "I know the plans that I have for you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you a hope and a future.", God is also with each Aboriginal, standing homeless in an inner-city park, drinking casks of wine, yelling profanities at eachother, and harrassing passers-by for a dollar, He is desiring for them to hear "I know the plans that I have for you". Desiring each one of them to be bound to Him by Christ.

As God is with you, as you cry and plead for His forgiveness for your sin, your sin of lust, your sin of hatred, your sin of lying, and God says "the day of Grace is here", and He looks at His son, nailed to a cross, gasping for air, unrecogniseable due to the punishment inflicted on him, the hatred directed at him, the sin covering him, shame weighing heavily on him, and we receive that forgiveness with humility and joy, knowing that our Father, our Daddy, has not thrown us onto the streets, out of His family, so does God look at the Jihadi, the one who burns the church and rapes the kaffir, the one who kills the infidel, and seeks to destroy us and our way, and says "the day of Grace is here", as He looks at His son, nailed spread eagle and naked to a cross, with their sin covering him.

As God walks in front of you, calling you forward, but doesn't run off and leave you when you cannot catch up. And as He walks along side you, to comfort you and pick you up when you fall. And as Christ is ready and willing to sit with you, to talk it over with you, and to lovingly discipline you when you do wrong, because you are His child, and all children need discipline. And to remind you that you are deeply loved, and there is a better way of life if you look beyond yourself, so God is also walking in front of your wife to guide, along side your spouse to comfort and pick them up, sitting with your spouse to talk and to discipline, they are His child, they are deeply loved, and there is a blessed life as your spouse looks beyond themself.

God is ominpresent.

He is fully with you, with the totality of His love on you, and He is fully with your neighbour, with the totality of His love on them. He loves us individually, as one who is with us individually, and He loves us collectively, as one who is with us collectively and transends all. He is with each of us, in each of us, alongside each of us, and He transends each of us, so we know that Him, our hope, and their hope, is able to do more - much more - than one who is only man.

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