God is everywhere, 3/4

Hell and Heaven

Have you ever think that God is not presence in your life? Have you ever think that He is leaving you? If the answer is yes, then it will be an apparent contradiction to the notion that God is presence everywhere. If God is truly presence everywhere, how can He be absence or leaving you?

Hell

How about Hell? Does God presence in Hell? In Matthew 18:9 the word hell is describe in Greek language "Gehenna" or often being called "Gehenna of fire". This was originally the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, where the filth and dead animals and often dead body of the city were cast out and burned; a fit symbol of the wicked and their future destruction. Hell is known as a place of eternal punishment. God does presence in hell; however His presence is not of His benevolent but his wrath. His presence is to punish the wicked. Thus God’s omnipresence is a bad news for bad people.

If you ever have a thought that God is leaving you might need to evaluate yourself (remember God is always presence). You might be trying to run away from Him all this while and you just exhaust yourself. See in yourself if you did sin against God. If you did, you have set yourself away from God. The absence of God is not because of He is leaving you but you are running away from Him. Stop distancing yourself from Him. Instead of dwelling in your sin and guilt, why not you bow down to your knees and humbly pray, “Forgive me a sinner.”

Heaven

Many people thought heaven as a dwelling place of God. However, heaven is not a dwelling place for God; He is not presence in heaven more then anywhere else. Heaven is just the place of focus of his character and presence of his blessing and glory are abundant.

In bible we encounter many of God presences to bless his people. And in our life He will also presence to bless us if we glorifying Him. To glorify Him does not mean that you try to do something to earn your way toward His blessing. To glorify Him means to make Him becomes the focus of your life. To glorify Him means to be more like him.

In our life His presence can be either to bless or to punish. Which one of His presence do you desire?