Let us take another look at Psalm 139 v 7 - 12, 'Where can I go from your Spirit? where can I flee from your presence ?. If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of a dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there you hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say,' Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me ,'even the darkness will not be dark to you, the night will shine like day, for darkness is as light to you.' When I was young my friends and I would play a game called ' Hide and Seek', when are first parents sinned, we read that they hid from the Lord God, Gen 3 v 8. Since then humanity has foolishly tried to hide from God, but the fact is there is no hiding place from God. For although God is in heaven, his presence is everywhere. The term we use to describe this, is omnipresence ,that God is immanent in his creation. Herbert Lockyer, writes,' No matter where we are, or may go, the words stand -Thou God seest me - which is blessed to those who know Him as Father and Friend'. In China at this time a Christian brother called Gao Zhisheng has disappeared, taken away by the authorities, in some hidden detention centre, his friends and family don't know where he is, but God knows, and not only knows, but God's presence is with that dear brother.
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