Topic: presence

We must feel neither condemned nor comfortable in absence. If we become comfortable in this world, we have stopped our search. If we become defeated in absence, we have forgotten the assurances of God. God withdraws to lead us deeper into Himself because He loves us, & by that same love He will return.

Someday, alongside all the heirs of Abraham, from every tribe, tongue, & nation, we will experience the fulfillment of God’s promise. The presence that has been elusive will show itself as both infinite and definite.

The presence offered through a relationship with Jesus is what we most require while on this earth & what we need when we leave it.

God’s general presence provides us with a faint memory of what no longer exists. Sin has caused our worst wound in separating us from God’s actual presence.
This is the great pain that all mankind lives with: the absence of God.