write an essay on your views on the presence of god
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One of the first ways we can be assured of Gods continued presence in our lives, even when everything seems in chaos, is that God himself has promised it. Look at the last words Jesus spoke to His disciples before he ascended into heaven: he said, “..and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” This is straight forward assurance of God not ever letting us alone. In Psalms 139, David plainly states that not only does God know us completely and never leave us, but that the converse is true as well; we can never be away from God. “Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold You are there” (Psalms 139: 7, 8 NKJV). Again in Psalms 55, David says, “As for me, I will call upon God and the Lord shall save me. Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice” (Psalms 55: 16, 17 NKJV). These scriptures are but a fraction of God’s explicit words telling of His presence always, no matter what is going on in our life. All the biblical narratives are full of the same message, implicitly. God cares for his people, so when you feel like you’re all alone, seek the promises of His Word first and take comfort in the fact that He is there.
Another way of knowing God is always there is to recall personal experiences where you have felt the same way in the past, and yet in hindsight you are able to clearly see God was with you all along. Sometimes circumstances of life can bring us to the point of feeling overwhelmed so that we miss the voice of God due to our own anxieties. I can certainly point to a period in my life where it seemed as if God had gone on vacation and everything was crumbling around me. I remember beginning this time in my life by crying out, yet I still felt crushed as I began to focus on my circumstances and not on my Saviour. In short order I came to the conclusion that God had left me alone and I began to drown in my own self-pity, circumstances of life and erroneous thinking. This went for about six years. During that time, God seemed very distant indeed, and I struggled with whether I’d every really known Him at all. As I look back upon that time however, I’m able to see moments where God was definitely present, and active in my life. My focus was just in the wrong place and I missed it at the time. Particularly, I remember God bringing to mind certain chapters of scripture I’d memorized as a child. These scriptures would replay in my mind at the strangest times, and even though I didn’t see it in the moment, God used His Word to begin drawing my focus back to him. I had peace for short spells amidst the storm of life, but I only know that for certain now as I look back. I believe God allows us to use our past experiences of life to draw on and affirm His presence. Much in the same way as He constantly commanded the young Israelite nation to remember Him and what He had done for them, we are to remember what He’s done for us in our life, in order to draw strength, comfort and assurance of not being alone in future storms of life.
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one moment in the presence of God can change many things . time spent in the presence of God is fulfilling .