This week we begin worship with:
Where shall I go from your Spirit? Or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
even there your hand shall lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
This is so comforting.
Regardless, if one has participated in the first resurrection or as Job understood and prayed, if there was a time one must first wait for God's wrath to pass, God's Holy Spirit is present.
Oh that you would hide me in Sheol,that you would conceal me until your wrath be past,that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
For that wrath could not be satisfied until God became both the just and the justifier in the perfect sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Regardless, if I obtain the power of flight, and can fly as fast as the dawn, and can visit the remotest locations of the earth, the LORD is not simply a carved image and one of many household gods, He is all-powerful and omni-present.
But that is not the comforting bit!
The comforting bit is what He does when He is with us. The Holy Spirit leads us and He holds ('āḥaz) us. He does not cloister or confine us, but instead during this adventure we call "life", He walks ahead of us and with a firm hand he holds onto us so we are not lost.
And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
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