A family friend who lost a teenager in a car accident wrote about her daughter, Lindsay, in a blog. After talking about the many pictures of Lindsay she had put around their house, she wrote, “She is everywhere, but nowhere.”

Although the people we have lost in our lives will still smile back at us from their photos, the people behind those smiles are nowhere to be found. They are everywhere—in our thoughts and in all those photos—but nowhere.

But the Bible tells us that, in Jesus, the Christians we have lost are not really nowhere. They are in Jesus’ house, “with the Lord” (2 COR. 5:8). They are with God who, in a sense, is ‘nowhere but everywhere’. After all, we can’t see God with our eyes. And we definitely don’t have smiling pictures of Him on our bedroom walls! In fact, if you look around your house, you may think He is nowhere. But just the opposite is true. He is everywhere!

Wherever we go on this earth, God is there. He’s there to guide, help and comfort us. We cannot go where He is not. We don’t see Him, but He’s everywhere. In the problems we face, that’s good news!

By: Dave Branon

To Pray About . . .

Thank You, Father, that You are here with me, right now. Teach me to lean on You.