Now when all things are made subject to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subject to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.
1 Corinthians 15: 28 NKJV
How many people can say that they have seen God? In fact, scripture tells us that nobody has seen God at any time {John 1:18, 1 John 4:12}. I would say, however, that even though we may have never seen the Lord, there is more than enough evidence out there that He does exist. A few years ago, while on a hike together, a good friend of mine pointed out that the presence of God was indeed all around us in the nature that we were seeing. Indeed, the Lords fingerprint was on the trees and the rocks as well as the air we were breathing. For if we agree that God created the heavens, the earth and all things, then we cannot escape the reality that God is in all which we see. God is all in all. Of course, there are those scientific minded folks who adhere to the idea that some sort of big bang created a cosmic soup from which all life evolved. I've never bought into that line of thinking. To me, creation is too precise to be left to chance to some random set of events. I look at the way our own bodies were so intricately woven together. How the atmosphere around us came together to support what we need to live. I'm sorry, but some random big bang cannot be responsible for such precision. All the more evidence of God all in all. I've always maintained the notion that God, being the creator of the universe and all that we see, can not help but be present in all which we see. Is the farmer separate from what he has planted, maintained and harvested? No, that is his crop. Although, the Lord did provide for him to grow that crop. I believe that there is absolutely nowhere we can go where we will ever be separated from our heavenly Father. This is what makes the lie of the enemy that we are somehow separate from God completely false. How is it that we can ever be separate from He who created us? Indeed, it is God who breathed into us the breath of life {Genesis 2:7}. From this scripture alone, we can see that we have never been separated from God. God who is all in all.
For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
Romans 11: 36 NKJV
Despite the fact that nobody has ever seen the Lord, we are surrounded daily by His presence. The apostle Paul spoke to this with his claim that it is Christ Jesus who is now in us {Galatians 2:20}. It is Jesus who lives through us. Does this sound like we are somehow separated from God? To me it is just more proof of the Lords presence in His creation. As I share a part of my earthly parents, God also shares His presence with me. After all, He created me. It doesn't stop there, either. For God is in all which we need to survive. From the food we eat to the water we drink to the air we breathe, God is all in all {Acts 17:28}. I mentioned before that Gods fingerprints are on all of His creation, but it goes deeper than that. For I believe that His presence is in all which He has created. Therefore, we are never very far indeed from Him who created us. What of our day to day lives? What situation will we ever face that God is not a intimate part of? As I said, the enemy's lie that we are separate from God is just that, a lie. We have never at any point in our existence been separate from the Lord. Of course, the truth is that Satan, our enemy, is also but a creation of the Lord. God all in all.
"God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. Nor is He worshipped with men's hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things."
Acts 17: 24 - 25 NKJV
~Scott~
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