And We Know It Not

 

God is here. He is omnipresent; that means that God is everywhere that we are.

Wherever we are, God is. He is present observing each of our lives unfold.

The Word assures us that God is not far from each of us; for in Him we live and move and have our being.

It is through him that we are able to live, to do what we do, and to be who we are. As your own poets have said, ‘We all come from him.’ – Acts 17:28 (ERV)

Jacob, in his “aha moment”, exclaimed, Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not – Genesis 28:16 (KJV)

And therein lies our problem, we know it not. God is with us, He is here, and we know it not.

Do you truly grasp the concept of your omnipresent God?

Do you truly grasp that there is no place He is not?

We cannot conceive of a place where God is not. This truth seems to be above our basic comprehension, too lofty for the limitations of our imaginations.

"Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence?" David asks God in Psalm 139:7 (NRSV read verses 1-12)

We are never outside of the presence of God. We read it, we say it, but we do not truly understand the enormity of such a truth. 

That God’s all-pervading presence is ever before us and around us.

But alas, like Jacob, we know it not. That is our trouble, we do not know it; we do not know that truth. If we did, what a difference it would make.

Knowing and understanding and believing that God is here is an awareness that too many of us do not have. We pray for and seek the manifestation of God’s presence when it is already here.

Beloved, God is with you even when you are utterly unaware of it. But as you open yourself to the work of His Spirit within, the more God will be revealed to you. God will manifest Himself to you, for it is the Spirit Who shows you the Father and the Son and draws you nearer into relationship with God.

 

Amen †

 

 

 

 

Shelley Johnson “And We Know It Not” © 2015 revisited September 15, 2025