Where is God?

“Where is God?”

Pastor and Author Jerry Cook repeatedly asks the question to congregations. Hearing that he recently asked that in a friend’s church made me start to think…

Diests are content to leave God in heaven. He’s “up there” somewhere, but probably unconcerned with what’s happening on earth.

Some humanists freeze Jesus on earth. They think we should remember the nice things He did and said when He was here. He’s a really good man to follow, they say, but not much more than that.

Many Catholic and Orthodox believers keep Jesus on the cross. What a wonderful reality that He died for our sins and we’d have no place in God’s family if it weren’t for the cross. I preach the cross every Sunday. But that’s not where we find God now.

A large number of Protestant Christians live with a constant focus on the resurrection and ascension. Jesus is alive! He’s back in heaven with the Father, building us a home. Mansions and feasts are waiting for us in the sweet by-and-by, in the sky, when we die vimax semenax great site good info (I used to add, “and a piece of pie”).

But none of that really answers the question, does it? Where is God?

He’s right here!

At Pentecost the Father and the Son sent the Holy Spirit to dwell in and through His people. In Colossians Paul put it this way: “Christ in you, the Hope of Glory”. In Corinthians he says all believers were given One Spirit to live in us.

Though He is manifest in these places, we don’t have to search for God in the cosmos, among creation, on the cross, or in some celestial future home—we find that God is fully present and active in the lives of those who have been reborn by His Spirit. We don’t have to invite God to join us when we worship and pray, He hasn’t left. And when I’m going about my day, I do it with the actual presence and power of the One who created and sustained the universe living in me.

We may understand that theologically, but what if we really believed it practically? Just imagine!