The Universal Presence

 

Genesis 28:16        

When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”

 

Psalm 139:7-10

7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
    Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
    if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
    if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
      your right hand will hold me fast.

 

Acts 17:24-28

24 “The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands.25 And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.26 From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. 27 God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. 28 ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.  As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

          

Prayer

O God and Father, I repent of my sinful preoccupation with visible things.  The world has been too much with me.  You have been here, and I did not know it.  I have been blind to Your presence. Open my eyes, that I may behold You in and around me. For Christ’s sake, Amen.