God’s Presence

A Journal Submitted by:  Jaque Shank

“Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit? to be out of your sight? If I climb to the sky, you’re there! If I go underground, you’re there! If I flew on morning’s wings to the far western horizon, You’d find me in a minute— you’re already there waiting! Then I said to myself, “Oh, he even sees me in the dark! At night I’m immersed in the light!” It’s a fact: darkness isn’t dark to you; night and day, darkness and light, they’re all the same to you.”

Excerpt from Psalm 139 The Message

Jaque, darkness isn’t dark to Me because I don’t just dwell in light; I am the Light; I am consuming fire—the Creator of Light. I am God “Within but not enclosed, without but not excluded, above but not raised up, below but not depressed. I am wholly above presiding, wholly beneath sustaining, and wholly within filling.” (Hildebert of Lavardin)

Lord, how can I comprehend your being everywhere at all times? I am desperately dependant on you for every breath, thought and answer. I want to recognize you in the dark and in the light; I want to SEE You everywhere and feel You living within me. So if you are everywhere present, does your presence in hell make hell what it is?

Jaque, I am a consuming fire but dark souls’ make hell what it is. Fire has a different affect on dark hardened souls than it does on humble souls transformed by its light. If the noonday sun shines on rotting flesh the stench is worse because of the heat; right? Jasmine under the noonday sun smells like heaven, but putrid flesh like hell. The sun never changes, so how I am everywhere present depends upon that which I am shining.

Be assured Jaque, there is not one molecule of space from which I am absent. Realize then that My omnipresence and omniscience cause your faith to begin. Also realize that I am not imagined presence. I am everywhere present right now. Focus on Me until you mature to the place of no longer guessing about Me but knowing Me. Here I am filling you with Myself—equally present within and without all time and space.