"More" of God is not found at point A than at point B. Everything that God is is fully present at each point in a given room, at every point in the building outside the room, and at every point outside the building. Omnipresence is altogether different because it means that the fullness of God is present everywhere. Instead, there are gas molecules throughout the room. When we think about oxygen in a room, the full quantity of oxygen is not gathered at one point in the corner. Moreover, when a gas is diffused throughout a particular area, no one space contains every gas molecule. In the first place, gases have material form even if they are often invisible to us, and God is immaterial. It would be a mistake, for example, to conceive of omnipresence as God's being like a gas that is diffused throughout the entire universe. Like divine infinity, however, divine omnipresence is a difficult concept to grasp. He transcends spatial limitations, and He is able to be in many places-indeed, everywhere-all at once. He is not limited to only one place, so we cannot erect a barrier between ourselves and His presence. No matter where we go, there our God will be. There is no place that we can hide in all creation because God fills all creation. Today's passage is one of many texts in Scripture that reveal to us our Creator's omnipresence. If God cannot be confined in any finite space, it makes sense that He would be omnipresent, that is, present everywhere in creation. The fact that our Lord has no spatial limitations has certain consequences for how we understand His other attributes, with omnipresence being a logical counterpart to His infinity. As a being who is beyond measure, God cannot be contained in any finite space (Ps.
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