Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. Psalm 139:7-10
Who are we kidding when we hold God responsible for all calamities, especially in our own circumstances? Let's start with: God is omnipresent, that we are believing that Jesus is God, that God is good, and that we are claiming that "God is with us" when we sing Immanuel at Christmas – with the coming of the Messiah (Christ) as a baby.
But the caveat – proviso of specific conditions, or limitations – expressed in John 1:10-13, (KJV):
He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born…of God.
Because God is aware of all that has happened and that will or potentially could happen in this realm of ours, what are we thinking?
He knows our circumstances. So why doesn't He 
just answer our prayers?
Let's just pose the question with everything we attribute to a God Who Is There, the Interconnectedness of the terms that there can be a character who knows everything (omniscient); who might be able to do everything (omnipotent); and, that a character who can do everything, might be able to be everywhere (omnipresent) to do it. So why doesn't He? That God is good and incorruptible is not a missing ingredient in His character.
You have heard the statement, "but what is a heaven for?" Ultimately God wants us to be united in relationship with Him in all respects. So…
…. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum. When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him and pleaded with him to come down and heal his son, since he was about to die.
Jesus told him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe."
"Sir," the official said to him, "come down before my boy dies."
"Go," Jesus told him, "your son will live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and departed.
While he was still going down, his servants met him saying that his boy was alive. He asked them at what time he got better. "Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him," they answered. The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole household.
Now this was also the second sign Jesus performed after he came from Judea to Galilee. John 4:46-54 CSB
In what circumstances is this man now, today, and his household? Yes, Jesus did perform this sign, so this son would be healed right then; a sign that this man, and we and, all mankind may believe and receive Christ; that God answers prayer from the remoteness of Heaven, so we can be united with Him now and forever in the best circumstances even possible.
by Lloyd Petersen
