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Sunday, August 26, 2012

IS GOD FAR AWAY? by Diane Solver

"Am I a God at hand, declares the LORD, and not a God far away? 24 Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD.” Jeremiah 23:23-24

“Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence? 8 If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there! 9 If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 10 even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.” Psalm 139:7-10

"But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you; how much less this house that I have built!” 1 Kings 8:27
      
 When God created man, He created him in His image and likeness. However, after they sinned, their image became corrupted and they became “unlike” God. Daddy God asked Adam and Eve, “Where are you?” after they sinned, not because He doesn’t know where they were hiding but to let Adam know or to let him realize where he is after he disobeyed God. Adam didn’t know that he was lost. Adam didn’t know that sinning and disobeying God would create a distance. Not a distance in space but a distance in moral likeness. They became “unlike” God. Daddy God is holy and we are unholy when we sin. When we sin, we hide ourselves from God and we feel that Daddy God is so far from us. Sin separates us from Him.

Many people keep on praying and asking God to draw near. Is God far from us? Is He so distant to us that we are praying for Him to draw near? Does He not fill the heavens and the earth? Is He not present everywhere? Daddy God is near to us than we are to ourselves. The reason why we can’t feel His presence is because of the gap that we are creating whenever we sin. Again, the gap is not in distance or space, but it is the difference of our character to God’s character. He is holy and we are unholy. He is good and we are evil. He is pure and we are corrupted. He is loving and we are hateful. He is humble and we are proud and arrogant. He is unselfish and we are selfish. He is forgiving and we are vengeful. He is kind and we are harsh. And so forth. There’s a vast difference in our character to His character. This made a gap or distance to God. So before we pray to God to come near, why not pray to God to show us what separates us from Him? Why not pray to God to search our hearts and see if there is any wickedness in us?

Daddy God said that no matter how small our sin is, it is still a sin. And sin will separate us from Him. Many think that it is alright to sin a little, to lie a little, to compromise a little, to disobey a little, to be a little impatient, a little bitterness, etc. But they were wrong. Daddy God said that those who do it, those who sin no matter how small they perceive it, will still be separated from Him unless they repent and change. Daddy God will spit those who are lukewarm.

Daddy God is still asking us now, “My son, My daughter, where are you?” Do we know where we are? Maybe we do not know that we are lost. Maybe many were unaware that they are being diverted away from the narrow way of Jesus that leads to life because of their “little compromise”. How many of us will admit that we are in the darkness and was lost? How many of us know the condition of our soul and our progress in our walk with God? How many of us still feel the manifestation of the presence of God?

Many people can’t feel God’s manifest presence. And because they don’t feel His presence, there is a hole in them or they often feel incomplete. They feel that something is missing or lacking and they can’t figure out what it is. That is why many people keep themselves busy. They want all the entertainment in the world. They want to invent every kind of entertainment to fill this missing part in them. It helps them forget that they are without God. If we could only feel Daddy God’s presence, if we could only feel His love, His peace, His kindness, and the awe of being with Him, I’m sure that we wouldn’t want anything else in the world but Him.

Jesus came to Earth to save the lost. Just like when He walked in the Garden of Eden searching for Adam and Eve, Jesus came searching for sinners. Sinners can’t feel the presence of God. Jesus went to the house of the tax collectors, publicans, sinners, etc, so they would feel God’s presence and they would realize that they were lost.  His love pursues us. He keeps on searching for the lost sheep. He is knocking on the door of every person’s heart. Oh, how great is His love.



“Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28 for In him we live and move and have our being.” Acts 17:28

Everyday, we must be restored to the image and likeness of God through Jesus. The more that we are like Jesus, the more we will feel God’s presence, because we are becoming one with Him.

ALL GLORY TO GOD!

-Daddy’s girl

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