A Four-Year Old Contemplates God’s Omnipresence

My four-year old daugh­ter got me think­ing about God’s omnipres­ence recently. She hasn’t exactly used the word “omnipres­ence” in a sen­tence or any­thing, but we have a lit­tle kid’s cat­e­chism book that we’re work­ing through. One ques­tion goes like this:

Ques­tion:  Where is God?

Answer:  God is every­where. Job 11:7

When she heard this, she objected, “No, no, Daddy! God is in heaven!” It was time to talk about omnipres­ence. I real­ized, while try­ing to explain it, that God’s omnipres­ence is hard to fully explain, let alone to try to under­stand. Even though we can’t fully grasp it, we can con­fi­dently believe it. Though it can be explained more, it is not less than  the three-word state­ment above:  God is every­where. I’ve writ­ten some med­i­ta­tions on God’s omnipres­ence over at Crossleadership.

Is God Really Among Us?  A Bold Dec­la­ra­tion of God’s Omnipresence