God: Onnipresent

When Jacob woke up, he said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”

But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? The heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.

But who is able to build a house for Him, since the heavens, even the highest heavens, cannot contain Him? Who then am I, that I should build a house for Him, except as a place to burn sacrifices before Him?

You search out my path and my lying down; You are aware of all my ways.

You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.

Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence? …

“Am I only a God nearby,” declares the LORD, “and not a God far away?”

“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.

However, the Most High does not dwell in houses made by human hands. As the prophet says:

‘Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me, says the Lord, or where will My place of repose be?

The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands.

God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.

‘For in Him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are His offspring.’