How is God everywhere?
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God created the universe from nothing.
By universe we refer to the vast space with the millions of stars with their planets which are within it.
We cannot even imagine the vastness of the space.
Light travels at a speed of 1,86,000 miles per second.
Scientists say that the light rays of some stars have not yet reached our planet though they are travelling at this speed right from the time of their creation millions of years ago!
Can we just imagine the distance between them and our planet?
They are innumerable million folds of light years from our planet.
One light year is equal to 1,86,000 x 60 x 60 x 24 x 365 miles!
Just imagine the size of the universe created by God!
Where is God?
God is everywhere.
The question and answer belong to a human language.
Man is living in the material universe created by God.
Though he is a combination of matter and spirit (body and soul) his language is related to matter as he has to deal with material things all his life.
The trouble is, he has to use the same material language even when he speaks about spirituality.
This is the cause of the confusion in our understanding things spiritual.
We use the question word ‘where’ when we expect an answer referring to a material place.
“Where are you living?”
“I am living in Pavoorchatram.”
“Where is the book I gave you?”
“It is on my table.”
We use the same ‘where’ when expect an answer referring to spiritual things.
“Where is God?”
“Where is heaven?”
“Where will we go after death?”
Just as ‘where’,
‘everywhere’ too refer to a material place.
By ‘everywhere’ we refer to the whole universe.
“God is everywhere’’ means that God is in all the places in the vast universe.
How is God everywhere?
Having no other go but to use a material language to describe things Divine,
we must be very careful in understanding what is described.
When we say ‘everywhere’ what comes to our mind is the material universe with its vast space with the million folds of stars in it.
True, God is everywhere in the universe covering a circumference of trillion folds of square miles!
The same God, who is within and around us, is also in a star which is many trillion light years away from us.
But, how?
The universe we are talking of is a material thing.
But God is a spirit.
Spirit cannot occupy a matter.
In fact a spirit needs no space for its existence.
We know that it was God who created the space.
God exists from all eternity when space was only an idea in His mind as we too were.
Then how is He in the material universe?
His being ‘everywhere’ is purely spiritual, not material.
God is everywhere by His
Power,
knowledge,
Love,
being the primary cause.
To be a little more clear,
1.By His power,
that is,
The universe was created by His power and is maintained by His power.
It is the universal spiritual presence of the almighty power of God
that is maintaining the whole universe.
2. By His knowledge,
that is,
He knows it through and through,
He knows it from all eternity,
Each and every material particle of the whole universe is in His eternal memory.
If God forgets the universe for a single fraction of a second,
which will never happen,
it will return to the nothingness whence it came by God's power.
Now it is quite safe in the eternal memory of God.
3. By His Love.
God loves His creation.
Whatever damage man may have done to His creation by his sin, God's love is unchangeable.
He still loves it and will love it.
It is due to His unlimited love that the human race is still alive in spite of its innumerable sins against Him.
4.By His being the primary cause of everything.
No cause, no effect.
God is the primary cause of whatever happens the universe.
Not even a single atom can move without God willing it.
God is a spirit.
It is His spiritual presence that is activating the universe.
God created us in His image.
Our spiritual soul is activating our material body.
Lourdu Selvam.
