God's omnipresence means that God is always present with His creation. His creation can never flee from Him or hide their faces from Him. Wherever God's creation is, so is God. This is slightly different from suggesting that God is literally in everything. To suggest that God is literally everywhere further suggests that God is everything. After all, if God were everywhere, it would mean that He is in our chicken sandwiches, in our blood, and in our computers.
This mentality would then suggest that everything is God. That is wrong. The Bible clearly distinguishes between the Creator and the created. This world was created, God was never created. God exists with His creation; He doesn't exist expressly inside of it.
More importantly, God alone is omnipresent. No other being possesses this quality. Satan cannot be everywhere at once, nor can his demons, nor can angels be every present. Only God possesses this unique ability. This attribute of God should give us comfort. He is with us in every trial and circumstance. John MacDuff writes, "In my seasons of sadness and sorrow and loneliness-when other comforts and comforters have failed-how sweet to think, 'My God is here! I am not alone.'"
God loves His creation immeasurably. Because of His great love for us, He always wants to be with us. But His love isn't just limited to loving humanity as a whole, in the same manner that we might love a football team or a type of food. He loves each of us specifically. God doesn't desire a relationship with the species of mankind, but with the individuals who make it up.
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