It requires an antecedent cause, and God is that Cause. 'In the beginning God.' Not matter, for matter is not self-causing. It remains for us to think on them and pray over them until they begin to glow within us. These are truths believed by every instructed Christian. No one is in mere distance any further from or any nearer to God than any other person is. It is exactly as near to God from any, place as it is from any other place. No point is nearer to God than any other point. Ten million intelligences standing at as many points in space and separated by incomprehensible distances can each one say with equal truth, God is here. There is no place, there can be no place, where He is not. What now does the divine immanence mean in direct Christian experience? It means simply that God is here. He is transcendent above all His works even while He is immanent within them. However closely He may be identified with the work of His hands they are and must eternally be other than He, and He is and must be antecedent to and independent of them. The truth is that while God dwells in His world He is separated from it by a gulf forever impassable. That is of course to degrade the glory of the incorruptible Deity and, in an effort to make all things divine, banish all divinity from the world entirely.

Nature and God are one, so that whoever touches a leaf or a stone touches God. It is that God is the sum of all created things. Pantheism's error is too palpable to deceive anyone. I would guess thereason for this to be the fear of being charged with pantheism but the doctrine of the divine Presence is definitely not pantheism. Christian teachers shy away from its full implications, and, if they mention it at all, mute it down till it has little meaning. That is, it appears in the books, but for some reason it has not sunk into the average Christian's heart so as to become a part of his believing self. This is boldly taught by prophet and apostle and is accepted by Christian theology generally. God dwells in His creation and is everywhere indivisibly present in all His works. In all Christian teaching certain basic truths are found, hidden at times, and rather assumed than asserted, but necessary to all truth as the primary colors are found in and necessary to the finished painting.

Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?-Psa.

The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer