Everywhere and Nowhere

Everywhere and Nowhere

Bible: Psalm 139:7-12

Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? (V.7).

A family friend who lost a teenager in a car accident wrote about her daughter, Lindsay, in a blog. After talking about the many pictures of Lindsay she had put around their house, she wrote, “She is everywhere, but
nowhere.”

Although the people we have lost in our lives will still smile back at us from their photos, the people behind those smiles are nowhere to be found. They are everywhere—in our thoughts and in all those photos—but nowhere. But the Bible tells us that, in Jesus, the Christians we have lost are not really nowhere. They are in Jesus’ house, “with the Lord” (2 COR. 5:8). They are
with God who, in a sense, is ‘nowhere but everywhere’. After all, we can’t see God with our eyes. And we definitely don’t have smiling pictures of Him on our bedroom walls! In fact, if you look around your house, you may think. He is nowhere. But just the opposite is true. He is everywhere!

Wherever we go on this earth, God is there. He’s there to guide, help and comfort us. We cannot go where He is not. We don’t see Him, but He’s everywhere. In the problems we face, that’s good news!

What I’m Thankful for…

Thank You, Father, that You are here with me, right now. Teach me to lean on You.

OUR GREATEST COMFORT IN THE HARD TIMES IS KNOWING GOD IS RIGHT HERE WITH US.

Youth Edition – Our Daily Bread Ministries