Omniscience and Omnipresence of God Illustrations

"The Omniscience and Omnipresence of God"

Jun 24, 2001 @ SearchTVMinistry by Mack Lyon

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Before God

Recently Congress passed a law that will push forward the use of unmanned drones here in the US. In fact, there is a prediction that, between the federal, state and local governments and local police, there will be as many as 30,000 drones used for surveillance. Some will be as large as passenger planes, but others might be as small as a humming bird – meaning you might not even know they are there.


This action from government – not only allowing this to take place, but actively supporting it – has lots of people upset. Their argument is that it infringes on their right to privacy. I would have to agree it seems as though our government may be overstepping its role, but I also think people have a false idea of privacy.

I think this is especially true when it comes to our spiritual lives. We often believe that as long as nobody sees us – or knows what we are doing – then it doesn't matter what we do. In other words, too many people believe it is only wrong if they get caught. But, we forget that ultimately we don’t answer to a drone-snooping government, but to an all-seeing God. God not only knows our actions, but he knows our very heart. John 3:20, “For whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he know everything.”


So, let us live our lives knowing that God sees and knows, not only the things we do, but what we think as well. He loves to see the good you are doing. Let us remember what the children’s song says and be careful what we do because the father up above is looking down in love. So first accept the fact you are a sinner, but know that God loves to forgive too. Be confident that someday He will say, "Well Done!"

God is Lovingly Watching You

I love children. They teach me a great deal. It is always need to watch kids play "peak a boo." Especially children still in the stage where they think as long as they can't see you, you can't see them. When you play hide and seek, they think as long as their head is covered they are well hidden. My friend was recently tell me about his experience. 

This flawed theory probably displayed itself best when my friend explain it and he said, "The other night when we were struggling to keep her in bed, we told her if we saw her out of bed one more time that she was going to get punished. We left her room thinking we had made our point; but no more than two minutes later, we saw her emerge with her blanket draped over her head trying to sneak past us. She thought since she couldn't see us, her blanket was working like some kind of cloak of invisibility. We laughed so hard that we couldn't punish her.

As funny and as silly as the philosophy "as long as I can't see you, you can't see me" is many of us live our lives that way when it comes to God. We think as long as we are not at church or with our Christian family God can't see and doesn't know how we live. Even if we don't believe that, many times that is the way we act. The truth of the matter is God sees all and we are no more clever than a two year old.

Hebrews 4:13 says "...there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do." We can't hide from God, and he knows the things we do -- whether we do them out in the open or try to hide them away in secret. So, as Christians let us try to live our lives in full knowledge that our heavenly father is watching us at all times.

We sing the words to a song, "There's an all seeing eye watching you." There is a heart full of love behind those eyes. God is not out to hurt us, but to see the bigger picture guiding us into something in our best interest.