None Like Him by Jen Wilkin
Week 8: Chapter 7 — Omnipresent
Read Chapter 7 of None Like Him. Key passages: Psalm 139:7–12; Jeremiah 23:23–24.
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God is fully present everywhere at once — there is no place where he is absent or diluted — and Wilkin explores what it means to live in the unceasing presence of a God who is always, completely there.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Wilkin explains that omnipresence doesn't mean God is spread thinly across the universe, but that he is fully present in every place simultaneously. Why is that distinction important? How does it change what it means to say 'God is with me'?
2.In Psalm 139, David asks where he could flee from God's presence — to heaven, to Sheol, to the ends of the sea — and concludes that there is nowhere. Is God's omnipresence experienced in this psalm as comforting, or as something more unsettling? How can the same truth be both?
3.Wilkin argues that we grasp for omnipresence when we try to 'be present' everywhere at once — the parent who attends every event, the professional who is always available, the person who cannot say no to a single request. Does this resonate with you? What does the inability to be in two places at once reveal about the goodness of your limits?