Вездесущность Божия
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The omnipresence of God shows you that God is everywhere with you, above you, and in front of you. In Him we live, and move, and have our being (Acts 17:28). Are you walking or sleeping, talking or being silent, are you alone or talking to someone? God be with you. Are you doing anything? God sees your work. Are you saying anything? God hears your word. Do you think anything? God discerns your thoughts. Are you proud? God looks at your pride. Does your heart turn away from God and turn to creation? He looks at your retreat. Are you breaking His holy law? He looks at your crime. Are you doing lies, committing theft, theft? He looks at your iniquity, your robbery and theft. Are you committing fornication? He looks at your fornication. Are you angry, or angry, or kill your neighbor? He looks at your anger, your malice and your murder. Do you slander, blaspheme, curse, slander your neighbor? He hears your slander, blasphemy, curse and slander. Do you think of offending, damaging, slandering, deceiving, insulting, defaming, or killing your neighbor? Do you want to commit uncleanness?
He sees your evil thoughts and undertakings and hinders you in your conscience. He sees it and is offended.
The omnipresence of God and a clear vision of not only deeds, but also our secret thoughts and intentions can turn us away from sin. It is especially presented to us in Psalm 139 and in other places of Scripture. We do not see God with our eyes, because we cannot see, for God is Spirit (John 4:24), not subject to any feelings, but faith from Holy Scripture teaches us that He is everywhere, and is inseparably with us; and whatever we do, he sees; and whatever we think clearly penetrates; and what we intend, plan, begin, want to do - he already knows and knew before our undertaking; and what we say He hears, and before Him both day and night are equal, and there is no place where He is not; therefore, every deed, done during the day and in the night and done in every place, cannot hide from Him. Whether a person does an evil deed, for example, commits fornication, kills, abducts, steals, etc., or plots evil, His eyes see. A man slanderes, slanderes, condemns, curses, lies, deceives his brother, or a man blasphemes the holy name of God - His holy ears hear.
And how many people there are on earth, he observes everyone, and sees everyone’s work, undertaking, thought and intention, and hears the word, and writes in His book, as if he only observed one, leaving the rest.
Our God is everywhere and in every place, therefore when a person sins, he sins before God and thus does not give Him due reverence. Who dares to commit outrages before the king of the earth?
Unless he's crazy. For he dishonors and annoys the royal person through outrage. A person who sins is not ashamed and is not horrified by God’s presence to act outrageously, and thus shows dishonor and annoyance to Him. Oh, when even a little of God’s glory had appeared to man, he would certainly have fallen lifeless, like the apostles, who heard only God’s voice, fell on their faces and were greatly frightened (see Matt. 17:6). But the blinded one does not understand this.
Holy Scripture presents to us that God is everywhere, and sees everything, and looks at all our deeds, thoughts, undertakings and intentions, and understands, and hears every word. Believe that He is with you, and you do everything before Him, you think, you begin, and you plot, and you say, and He knows every deed, thought and word of yours much better than you - and firmly believe in this, without a doubt. Then, of course, you will feel animation in your soul and you will have fear and trembling, reverence and caution in your deeds and thoughts; and you will walk before Him as his subjects walk before a king, as his children walk before their father, and as his servants walk before their master, and guard against all that is bad and strive to do all that is good. Look at Him with the eye of your mind and faith as you look at a king, or a lord, or your father, when you are with them, as the prophet said about himself: I always saw the Lord before me, for He is at my right hand, so that I would not be shaken (Ps. 15:8). He is not far from each of us (Acts 17:27), although we do not see Him.
Believe in this firmly, and then you will certainly feel everything differently within yourself, then the spirit of fear of God, reverence, hope, prayer, and so on will be born in you.