Where do you find God?

I am currently reading a wonderful little book, actually, more of a lecture series put into book form by Thomas Kelly titled “The Sanctuary of the Soul”. Today I learned something that might be common knowledge to all of you reading this blog, but it was new to me.

A fundamental question many people ask is, “Where can I find God?” Inevitably they go on a mission searching for God. They might look into religion. They might look into the Bible. They might look into sunsets, rainbows, or mountain tops. They might search within the sufferings of war or the services of saints.

I learned today that you do not have to travel very far to find God. He is always with you, inside you knocking, inside you urging you to find Him. Religion, the Bible, sunsets, rainbows, or mountain tops all reveal and point toward God; but they are not God. They most certainly reveal God to us, revealing God’s glory. Like Kelly said years ago:

“He is not in the Bible, as such. For the Bible, as such, is a book, and words; and what you want is not a book but a living God; not words, but the Word, the Living Word. It is not the words of a book, but the Living Word who animated and owned those writers who wrote the Bible, that we crave.” (The Sanctuary of the Soul, by Thomas Kelly)

God is already everywhere we are going to look. He is in the midst of the suffering before we ever arrive. In fact, we arrive because it is God within us urging us to go! The lesson I learned today was to listen. Be quiet and listen to that inner voice, that inner urging that prompts us in the direction of God’s will.

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