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.
Psalm 139:7-8 NIV
He is Everywhere
A report in the Financial Post in 2019 stated that Canadian banks were expanding globally in order to continue to grow. Canadian banking at the time was no longer the engine driving profit growth at the country’s large lenders. At that time, Canadian financial giants including Royal Bank of Canada and Toronto-Dominion Bank had just announced their quarterly results, and it was becoming clear that businesses such as wealth management and U.S. operations were doing more to increase earnings than their mainstay of domestic consumer lending.
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When I was a child, we used to sing a little song in Sunday School that you might have sung too. It instructed us to be careful what we did because the Father up above is looking down in love. I later learned that the theological term for God’s presence everywhere is omnipresence. It is one of the foundational parts of His nature. There is nowhere we can go that God is not. His presence fills His Creation, to the infinity of the Universe. The Psalmist puts it so perfectly in Psalm 139:7-8: “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.” There is nowhere we can go where God is not. As that simple little song says, He is looking down in love. He sees when we fail, He forgives when we seek Him, He empowers us to walk in holiness. No matter where you find yourself, God is with you. Everywhere. Always.
These have been words from the heart.
Bob Beasley