He is there

“I will never leave you nor forsake you”

It is not the fact that we are not alone. It goes beyond His promises to never leave us nor forsake us. Instead it is the understanding that He is within us. We have to realise that in Him moulding us as His children, He has given Himself to reside in us. This means that the Lord is not “there” in the sense that He is next to us and He can easily leave if He chooses to, but rather the fact that He is there dwelling inside each and every one of us. We have an intimate connection with the Lord thus He says He knows us more than we know ourselves, He knows our deepest thoughts and knows what we are about to request even before we do.  The presence of the Lord is not that which we need to invite because it is always there- we just need to acknowledge that the presence is there. We are never separated from Him because He not only has His watchful eye over us, however He is there living in us, around us, with us.

So often when we feel lonely we tend to question God. We look up at Him and say ‘God, you said that I need not feel alone because you will never leave me but WHERE ARE YOU?’ We start to think that God has broken His promise. Little do we realise that the one thing that is impossible for God is for Him to ever leave us. How can He? When He is within in us and within the people around us. Everyone is a representative of Jesus and so He will place someone at a certain point knowing that you need that person. He will also place you at another point knowing that you are what someone else needs and in that way He has not forsaken anyone.

The one thing that stands between us and fully acknowledging the ever-present presence of God is our thinking process. The devil tries to deceive us with our feelings of doubt, insecurities and loneliness. John 8:36 tell us that the Son of God has set us free. That means that we are set free from such deceiving thoughts that we are alone. We need to move away from determining our relationship with God based on what we are feeling. We need to see and believe what is there and what is there is the many promises the Lord has made to us that we shall never be separated from Him and the love that He has for us.

The Lord is called an omnipresent God for a reason, because He is always there- everywhere around us. He is there.