Bible Question:
Where is God? I have been actively seeking for at least five years now. I, and my family, was recently baptised in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I have been regularly attending church for about a year now, and spend time in the word (though not as much as I should, I'm sure). But I still feel alone. Mathew7:7-8 7"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. Deuteronomy 4:29 But if from there you seek the LORD your God, you will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul. Jeremiah 29 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I have been seeking, I have knocked, I have prayed, I have aksed, I deisre nothing more than to know God. But even after all this I still doubt. I still question. i know that my doubt has made me a more knowledgable person, but what good is knowledge without God's presence? Where is God; why am I not allowed to know Him; how long must i seek before I can find Him? |
Bible Answer: 1st John 4:7-12 "Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us. By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit. We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God." John 13:34-35 "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another." John 14:21 "He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him." 1st John 2:7 "Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard." ... 1st John 3:23-24 "This is His commandment, that we believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as He commanded us. The one who keeps His commandments abides in Him, and He in him. We know by this that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us." Love those around you with sincere love, and you will both know and feel the presence of God in your life. 1 Peter 1:22-25 "Since you have in obedience to the truth purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren, fervently love one another from the heart ... And this is the word which was preached to you." Ancient |