The doctrine of God's omnipresence appropriately fills us with awe.
In addition, the doctrine also proves to be comforting. We can always be certain of God's undivided attention. We don't ever need to stand in line or make an appointment to be with God. When we are in God's presence, He is not preoccupied with events on the other side of the world.
The doctrine is, of course, not at all comforting to the unbeliever. There is no place to hide from God! There is no corner of the universe where God is not. The wicked in Hell are not separated from God only from His benevolence. His wrath is with them constantly.
For the unbeliever, the doctrine highlights the fact that people cannot hide from God. Their sins are done in God's presence. Like Adam, they seek to hide. However, there is no corner of the universe that God's gaze, either in love or wrath, fails to reach.
God's omnipresence is a comfort to the believer, and a terror to the unbeliever!
[R. C. Sproul]
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Job 34:21 … For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.
Proverbs 15:3 … The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
Jeremiah 23:24 … Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.
Hebrews 4:13 … Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.❤
