There is no place that we can be that God is not there. God is everywhere all the time. This is a fact that is hard for the human mind to understand. This means you can’t just leave God somewhere on purpose or by accident.
In verse 8 before rockets or airplanes were created that could carry a person into the air, he knew God was there.
Spiritually, have you ever thought or said you felt your life was a living Hell? The lowest point is what you thought you were going through. There is nothing that compares to Hell on this earth. When you are at your lowest point in life, God is still there. He never leaves or forsakes. Being backslid on God, He is still there. When you were living like Hell, disgraced His name, He was still there.
It rains on the just and the unjust just the same. God knows what you need and when you need them. His blessings are pouring out regardless of where your love is for Him. If you think that you can go beyond God’s love and that He will let go of you, you’re badly mistaken if you’ve been saved. God doesn’t depart from His sheep. When it gets hard He doesn’t detach from you and say, you’re on your own.
In verse 9 he speaks of the East and West. No matter how far to the east you go away from the west, God is still there. Jonah was a backslid preacher and God stuck with him even in the belly of the fish, Jonah’s Hell. The very fact that He is with us means He can hear us. There isn’t a single person that is above the thought of suicidal thoughts. The devil can easily sow the seeds of un-care and before you realize it, your thoughts are on suicide. With Jonah, God had already prepared the great fish. Once Jonah hit the water the fish swallowed him and down they went. God then told that fish to take Jonah to Ninnava. Just as Jonah, God is directing your path back home. You might have to go through “Hell” to get there, but you’re headed back home. God knew that Jonah was going to do His work.
In verse 11 he stated that even when it’s dark, God can still see and is still there. In our lives, it might get dark where we can not see. God can see, and He’s still there. God is not affected by the brightness or the lack of. The dark things will come whether we are the reason for them or not. Regardless of the fault, God is there, always.
