As it is true that God is one and that all of His attributes are really one with the other, all of His attributes are seen in something of a different way by looking at other attributes. All shine forth to some degree a different shade of His beauty and glory.
God’s omnipresence shows us that God is self-existent in all places at once at all times. He does not just exist and bring other things into being and then move to another location to bring other things into being, but He is in all places at once to create as He pleased and now to hold things into being as He so pleases.
God’s omnipresence connects with His eternity by showing us that He is eternally omnipresent and not just at one point or another. There will be no time in eternity future where God will be anything less than fully present in all places at all times at the same time. For all eternity people will be in the presence of God. This means that hell is not a place that is apart from the presence of God as He is everywhere there is a where.
God’s omnipresence is most beautifully set out with His immensity. Some think of this in a slightly different way, but in this sense I am using it to try to set out that there is not just a little bit of God here and there, but all of the character of God is present in all places. God is not like a very tall man sleeping in a small house so that his feet are in one room but his head and torso are in another. No, all of the character of God is present in all locations. God is not just omnipotent in one place at a time while He is holy in another, but He is omnipotent and holy in all places and at all times.
God’s omnipresence is set out in accordance with His omniscience in that God knows all about where He is. Since God is everywhere, He knows all things. There is nothing beyond His presence so nothing is beyond His knowledge. God knows simply by knowing Himself and all within Him, that is, all that has come from Him and all that He sustains in being.
God’s omnipresence is linked with His incomprehensibility in that no finite being can even begin to comprehend what infinite presence really is. This is also why men deny this since it is beyond human reason to comprehend it.
God’s omnipresence is set out by His immutability in that God is omnipresent at all points and time without a change in His being. Since God is omnipresent and never changes, He is always the same everywhere.
God’s omnipresence, especially with His immensity in view, aligns very beautifully with His providence. Since He is everywhere at every moment, and at the same time all of His character is fully everywhere, there is no possibility that God is not working at every point apart from His providence and sovereignty. Whatever is happening at any location at any given time is most certainly under His providential care.
We see God’s omnipresence with His supremacy in that God is supreme in every place and not just at a given point in time. Instead God is utterly supreme over all things that happen in all places.
God’s omnipresence is also seen in His goodness in that each time it rains anywhere or anytime the sun shines anywhere we know that God’s goodness is the ultimate reason. It is God that sends rain and the sun on even His enemies. If God were not omnipresent, this would not be true.
God’s omnipresence is also tied in with His wrath. At each moment in time in all parts of the world God’s wrath is being displayed moment by moment each and every day in each and every place sin is occurring (Rom 1:18ff). Each sin committed by each person is punished immediately by God. He hardens the heart and turns people over to more sin and to more and more idolatrous notions of Himself. He punishes people by turning them over to more and more hideous sin and spiritual darkness. If eternal life is to know God, then it is increasing spiritual darkness to be hardened into ignorance of Him which is also idolatry. People go on and on in sin to the point that they deny the very being of God or they simply deny certain aspects about Him. In the very denial of the attribute of omnipresence people show that their hearts are hardened against God. In the denial of God people demonstrate the truth of the omnipresence of God in that He is shown to be there by the hardening of their hearts.
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