So, if God is everywhere, how can we make the statement, “I feel distant from God.” or “I don’t feel close to God.” But yet it’s true: there ARE people that are in fact “distant” from God. How? Why? Because it’s not about physical location or geography but it’s about similarity. It’s about UNITY with God. When we get saved we become “partakers of the Divine Nature!” We get in UNITY with God. I believe there are many “Christians” that are FAR from unity with God. They are dis-similar to Him… out of sync with His Spirit & His Word.
For example, I can look across the room at my wife at a large party or gathering & understand exactly what she is saying to me. How? We are in unity! However, I can be sitting two feet from her in our car & just had a spat with her, & yet there is DISTANCE. Unity & communion (common union) has been broken!
How can God be FAR or CLOSE. There’s a difference in His omnipresence & His manifest presence.
Genesis 28:16 (until now)
The Lord’s “manifest presence” happens when we get in UNITY with God & start walking in the same direction as He is. This moment is when Jacob committed to OBEYING God with his whole family! In fact he expressed that commitment by beginning to TITHE to the Lord!
OPINION ALERT: (I don’t believe there’s ever been a great man of God that didn’t practice the principle of the tithe.)
NONETHELESS, the question is: Are you walking in His MANIFEST presence or settling for His omnipresence?
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