I like to share my poems and writings on social media. Here is my latest reflection below….
Jeremiah 23:24
“Can anyone hide from me in a secret place? Am I not everywhere in all the heavens and earth?” says the LORD.
A wandering lost soul, searched for the place that God had “made” just for her.
A place where even He, didn’t have the key.
The soul looked for her own tiny piece of sky that only belonged to her.
Was there a place to hide under His sky?
A part of the sky that God never saw?
Was there a door for her, God couldn’t unlock?
Only because He made the door, and then promised not to peak inside?
What there a place to rest her soul, where no one looked for her?
“I am so weary,” she said.
“I don’t want to be found.”
So off she went.
She looked everywhere.
She looked for her place to rest, alone.
She looked for a place where God could not read her thoughts.
She looked high and low.
She looked up.
She looked down.
She looked for no one but herself.
She looked for a place where God wasn’t.
Did she find a place without God?
No.
She only saw more and more of God.
She found God everywhere she went.
God was on every corner.
God’s presence was found in every place on earth.
“Am I a God who is only close at hand?” says the LORD.
“No, I am far away at the same time. Can anyone hide from me in a secret place? Am I not everywhere in all the heavens and earth?” says the LORD. (Jeremiah 23:23-24)
God wasn’t hiding!
God was in full view.
God was reading all her thoughts.
“You know my thoughts even when I’m far away.” (Psalm 139:2)
He was in her mind.
Always.
God was inside every soul.
God was invisible.
But He was still everywhere.
She then stopped.
She thought.
“God is not going anywhere.”
“God is always there.”
“God can never be lost.”
She understood.
She then said, “God, because you are everywhere, I am everywhere too.”
“Only because you carry me inside your heart and your heart is everywhere.”
Then she understood what she never understood before.
God had made her heart.
“So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” (Genesis 1:27)
God had placed His own feelings inside her.
She was created to love Him and others.
“Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is brought to full expression in us.” (1 John 4:11-12)
God was so big that there was plenty of Him to go around.
His heart was so big that it covered the whole world.
She then understood how big God’s love was.
His heart was the biggest heart there was.
His omnipresent heart was big enough to love the whole world.
She knew that God’s Word was true.
“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)
~Written by Helen Olenjin~
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