Job 11:7-9 — Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

Yesterday’s topic was philosophy — should we philosophize? Since I came down on the “yes” side, I thought I’d invite you to join me in a bit of philosophizing today.
What do you think about the proposition that God is infinite? Actually, infinity suggests a whole bunch of attributes. Let’s just pick one: Omnipresence — the idea that God has not limited in space. What do you think? Job was pretty clear – and so was John Marriott who in 1813 wrote the hymn “Thou, whose almighty word” based on the text above. The last verse is:

Holy and blessed Three, Glorious Trinity, Wisdom, Love, Might!
Boundless as ocean’s tide, Rolling in fullest pride, Thro’ the earth, far and wide, Let there be light!

Paul was clear about it too. When he spoke to the Greeks on the Areopagus he described God: “for in him we live, and move, and have our being”.
But maybe you’re not clear? This is the sort of stuff I think about from time to time. Here’s the sort of thing that stretches my mind:
If God is not infinite, does that mean there’s an area outside God? Does He not control that area — How would that work?
On the other hand, if we live and move and have our being in Him, doesn’t that mean that our sin somehow exists within God? That makes no sense!
Is your head aching yet? Mine was. Eventually I came back to a realization. You can’t think of God’s relationship to space in the same way as you think about man’s relationship to space. God is Spirit, not matter!
Wayne Grudem helps in his “Systematic Theology”:

God does not have size or spatial dimensions and is present at every point of space with his whole being, yet God acts differently in different places. … Yet there are also specific passages that speak of God’s presence in every part of space. We read in Jeremiah, “Am I a God at hand, says the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? says the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord” (Jer. 23:23–24).

So there you have it. God is everywhere. He fills space and time. But it’s a different kind of filling. God is spirit — we are in Him, and He might be in us … If we invite Him. But we can ignore Him too, and claim He isn’t there! But you can claim the oxygen isn’t there as well … But it doesn’t stop it being everywhere!
Well that’s philosophy for today. God is omnipresent, but there’s plenty of room for us. I don’t think about this stuff all the time …