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DOES GOD TRAVEL?
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| by Lily Cathcart |
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When Jesus was on the earth he did a fair amount of walking. I have to wonder; as a man he did what humans do to get to a place, but as God did he feel the very foundation of the earth as he did so? Was each grain of sand or blade of grass telling him its life story as it brushed under his sandals? Does God travel? God who is omnipresent surely doesn’t need to? But I know with all my heart that the Spirit is with every traveller today. With a refugee clutching to the edge of their tiny forsaken boat. The spirit is feeling every rapid heartbeat, wailing at every death which goes unmarked except for a temporary gravestone in the form of a wave. The spirit also sits alongside those who travel First Class and rides with those who charter private jets. With them in their struggles and excitement and boredom, skimming the earth and sailing over the gravestones and the waves. Does God travel? Everything travels and everything rests, and God is with everything.
God, Thank you for traveling with us. Sorry that we do not care for all travellers as we should. Open our eyes to every journey and not just to our own. Let us be your arms and hearts, caring for everyone and everything that travels across our world. Amen. |
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JOB 38: 1-11
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1 Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind: 2 ‘Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? 4 ‘Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? 8 ‘Or who shut in the sea with doors |
You seem to be taking Jesus as your god, though the bible is clear about the position of that man who walked so many miles. He is declared the son of Gdo by his own heavenly Father Who should also be our Father. That divine Father is an Eternal Being that is everywhere at once, not being hindered or limited by space or time. Notice in Scripture how Jesus is well limited in his way to go places or to be with other people (like him missing the dying Lazarus.) God being everywhere as a Spirit Being does not have to travel, because He is everywhere. But by way of speaking we naturally can say that God goes with us on our ways, and as such travels with us.