Feeling Far From God? Read Psalm 139:7-12
Psalms 139:7-12 · Berean Standard Bible
When God feels distant, Psalm 139:7-12 is the passage to read: 'Where shall I go from your Spirit? Where shall I flee from your presence?' David affirms there is no place — not the heights, the depths, or the darkness — where God is not already present. Feelings of distance are real, but they don't move God; even when you can't sense him, he is nearer than you feel.
7Where can I go to escape Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your presence?
8If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
9If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle by the farthest sea,
10even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.
11If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
12even the darkness is not dark to You, but the night shines like the day, for darkness is as light to You.
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