God's Presence revealed.

We are living in a time where very few people experience God's real presence. How do you know what God is? If I am going to talk about His Presence I am going to have to recall when I first became aware of it. First to live in the presence of God requires that you are open to believing in Him. I have believed in God for most of my life, so it is hard to say that growing up that I ever felt separated from God. Preachers like to say that sin separates us from His presence, and while this is true, there is something else that I have learned that cuts people off from Him, and that is their suppression of His presence. We all have an awareness that God exists, so it isn't my imagination working when I tell you that God is real. Part of the reason people don't believe in God, or believe they are sinners is because they are suppressing this truth. Read:

18 But God shows His anger from heaven against all sinful, wicked people who suppress the truth by their wickedness. 19 They know the truth about God because He has made it obvious to them. 20 For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see His invisible qualities–His eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. (Romans 1:18-20 | NLT)

Whatever might be known about God has been revealed through nature and God's word, and the fact that I choose not to suppress God's existence in my life, doesn't mean that I have to prove His existence to you. God is revealing himself to millions of people who want Him to reveal himself, and to say that God does not exist is just an excuse. Man chooses not to believe or otherwise needs proof of his goodness. Notice I didn't say existence, because if man were to stop suppressing the existence of God, they would immediately realize His existence and goodness.

This is what happens at death. God reveals himself to the person who has left this world. God's presence can be a comfort or or can be a torment for the person who didn't believe in God. God is love, so the person who knows this and has faith there is nothing that can erase their love for God. Christians are persecuted all over the world, but God manifests his love and forgiveness even till the very end. This is Mike.

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