If God is omnipresent, then what is special about being in the presence of God?

As to omnipresence, God has no more to do with space than with time. He has created all things in a way apprehensible thus to us. In this creation nothing escapes Him. He is, morally speaking, omnipresent. He is not of, or in it, but pervades it. He is "through all"! He upholds everything, as He creates everything.

I do not connect omnipresence and eternity as attributes with God, not because they may not, in an ordinary sense, be said to be so... but that in our minds they are connected with time and space, which do not apply to God. There is no time when God is not; no place where His eye and hand, to use human language, are not. "I AM" is the proper expression of His existence.

He has no bodily shape. He is not circumscribed like ourselves, and He is an omnipresent spirit, and therefore though in heaven, He is here, and we being spirit are in His presence.

Thinking of his own failure in responsibility, the godly man is overwhelmed in the presence of the omniscience of God. He would fain flee from the presence of God, and escape His all-searching gaze. He finds, however, that God is not only omniscient but also omnipresent. There is no escape from the Spirit of God; no place that God cannot penetrate; no solitude where God is not; no darkness that can hide from God.

There is, morally speaking, no staying in His presence; but there is no getting out of His presence, nor where He sees not, though conscience might be glad to flee. But this brings in another aspect. He knows all, because also He has formed all. This connects us with the taking perfect notice of us in goodness. He cares for us, watches over every member that is formed, as He knows our every thought; if He does, He has His own too, and these are precious to us. This is just the change and working of faith. It begins necessarily by conscience under God's eye; for it brings us into His presence, and then gets at God's thoughts, who has formed us for Himself.

Here, however, there comes a great change in his experiences, as the result of turning from himself, and his own works, to God and His marvellous works as the Creator. With this change of experience he breaks into praise. He realizes that he is God's possession, formed by God for God's own purposes settled before ever he was fashioned. Above all, he realizes that God's thoughts are towards him and not against him. They are precious and beyond comprehension.

GOD INHABITS ETERNITY. GOD DWELLS WITH HIM THAT IS OF A CONTRITE AND HUMBLE SPIRIT.

There is an immense contrast! A Being so great as to fill all things, to inhabit eternity, yet so gracious, so condescending as to stoop down and dwell in the humble and contrite spirit.

When repentance is present in the soul... God is able to dwell in that soul; for the contrite and humble spirit is morally suitable to be God's dwelling place.

Standing before God fully revealed, supposes not our obligations to Him in government... but fitness for His own presence. This is in Christ only.

God fills everything; He is omnipresent. So is the Holy Spirit... By God's omnipresence we simply understand that He is Himself, in His divine completeness, everywhere present. He puts forth all his power throughout infinity constantly.

Thus, when we speak of being filled with the Holy Spirit, we simply mean that He has complete, entire control of our whole being. He occupies the entire man.

A person is received as a guest into our home. He is a person of beautiful character, and singularly helpful. He is received into our guest-rooms, but is tacitly excluded from the more private parts of the house, where the work is done. Such a person would be said to be dwelling in our home, but you could not say he was filling the house. He is limited to certain parts of it.

But, at last, through a fuller acquaintance, a sense of confidence, a realization of help already, and, above all, an increasing sense of utter incompetence in ourselves, we admit him, gradually, perhaps, to all the house. He makes his presence and his help felt everywhere. He fills the house.

Once a local centre for worship was needful. If you have a bullock and you want to sacrifice it, you must go somewhere to do it... But when worship is restricted to the heart and spirit, does the place matter?

The spirit is that part of our being which is altogether independent of locality. Our bodies may be here in the Memorial Hall, but our spirits may be in the heaven of heavens.

The path of life for the Son of God lay through death, but it led upward to the Father's throne, so that the Son could say in Spirit, "In Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore."

It is an amazing privilege to have communion with the Father and the Son into whose presence we have access with boldness and with confidence through the faith of the Son of God... There is no joy to compare with the joy that the Father's presence brings to the hearts of His own, those who can share His thoughts of His beloved Son, and who can share the Son's thoughts of the Father.