The prefix omni- originates in Latin and means “all.” So, to say that God is omnipresent is to say that God is present everywhere. Although God is not totally immersed in the fabric of creation (pantheism), He is present everywhere at all times. Omnipresence is God’s characteristic of being present to all ranges of both time and space. Although God is present in all time and space, God is not locally limited to any time or space. God is everywhere and in every now. No molecule or atomic particle is so small that God is not fully present to it, and no galaxy so vast that God does not circumscribe it.
As a being who is beyond measure, God cannot be contained in any finite space.The fact that our Lord has no spatial limitations has certain consequences for how we understand His other attributes, with omnipresence being a logical counterpart to His infinity. If God cannot be confined in any finite space, it makes sense that He would be omnipresent, that is, present everywhere in creation.There is no place that we can hide in all creation because God fills all creation. No matter where we go, there our God will be. He is not limited to only one place, so we cannot erect a barrier between ourselves and His presence. He transcends (existence or experience beyond the normal or physical level) spatial limitations, and He is able to be in many places—indeed, everywhere—all at once.
We should not think of God as localized in an earthly spot. That includes the church. When we say sometimes that the church is God’s house we don’t mean that in the sense that God’s presence is there in some way that he is not present elsewhere. We can speak of the church building as God’s house in the sense that it is set apart for God. It is a sacred site dedicated to the Lord and his worship, but there aren’t sacred spots in the world on Earth where God is especially present in a local kind of way. God is present everywhere.
The opposite error would be to think that God is localized in heaven. Many Christians think that God is in heaven sitting on a throne. That he is some sort of humanoid being that is up there in heaven and is localized there. That would be the opposite mistake. The doctrine of God’s omnipresence says that God is present everywhere. These opposite errors need to be avoided. We shouldn’t think of God as localized in an earthly place, but neither should we think of him as localized in heaven. A throne would be a figurative way of showcasing God's power and might.
Like divine infinity, however, divine omnipresence is a difficult concept to grasp. It would be a mistake, for example, to conceive of omnipresence as God’s being like a gas that is diffused throughout the entire universe. In the first place, gases have material form even if they are often invisible to us, and God is immaterial. He is spirit (John 4:24).
Omnipresence is altogether different because it means that the fullness of God is present everywhere. Everything that God is is fully present at each point in a given room, at every point in the building outside the room, and at every point outside the building. “More” of God is not found at point A than at point B. God and His attributes, including His holiness, wisdom, goodness, justice, knowledge, power, and so on, are fully present in His creation at every point. We often forget that the Lord is right at hand wherever we are, but our forgetfulness does not indicate His absence.
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