Where can I go from Your spirit?
- a place. Where in this house; where in this neighborhood; where in this nation; where in this world..... where in this universe.... not a single place.... but also where situationally. Where in trials, where in joy, where in my own selfish mind and overthinking, where in my giving and sacrifice, where in my foolishness, where in my smarts and blessing. Where?
Where can I go from Your spirit?
- ability. Positive. It's not just "where am I going", but all possibilities past, present, and future as well. "Where CAN I go?" Of course the answer is nowhere.
Where can I go from Your spirit?
- personal. I. Not, "Where could a righteous person go". Where can I go. The very God of the blazing universe, of the stars, planets, galaxies, cells, mitochondria, wiggly caterpillars and fiery stars is a PERSONAL God. Whoa. Let that truth just blow your mind for a minute. Whoa. Not to make this phrase all about ourselves or anything, but that little pronoun really does radically determine the meaning of this question.
Where can I go from Your spirit?
- action. Place. Of course the answer is NOWHERE! Fleeing, running, whether we're purposefully heading the wrong way or we "find ourselves" away, wherever we've gone, God's spirit is still with us/pursuing us.
Where can I go from Your spirit?
- away. Place. It's "where can I get away"... "to be away"... there's no place we can go and no measure of "away-ness"!!!!
Where can I go from Your spirit?
- God's. This is perhaps the most important part!!! It's not just "where am I not surrounded by a fuzzy warm feeling" or "how could I possibly be away from salvation", but where can I go from YOUR spirit. The VERY PRESENCE OF GOD hounds us and is with us all the time!!! Just take that in for a moment~!
Where can I go from Your spirit?
- the very presence of God. The Third Person of the Trinity! It's not just some mystical force God has with us, or just a happy feeling. It's His very spirit, living, active, working within us and interceding for us at His throne. It's a practical, useful, moving Person that God leaves with us.
Wow. The Psalmist is asking a question that was so important to him, but means even MORE to us today. "Where can I go from Your spirit?" asks God if there is a place he can get away--a la, "the eyes of the Lord are in every place" and you can't get away from it--and, in another sense, if there's a single place he can go where God's Spirit isn't with him, pursuing and/or strengthening him. It could be a physical place, or even a more abstract one: no trial, no pain, no inner struggles or other "places" you could "go" are places that God can't go with you and reach you in. What a truth!
And what strikes me the most after that is how David was saying this BEFORE the time of Christ. Now, God's spirit is not only with us everywhere, but we can ACCESS Him everywhere! When Jesus died, the old way of accessing God--once a year, and only a priest could do it--went with Him. Now we can access God through our own High Priest, Jesus, whenever and wherever we are. Wow! I guess I was just blown away by that fact today :)
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