The Presence of God!

God has Manifested Himself! Yet so many do not see. “Genesis 3:8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9 But the LORD God called to the man, "Where are you?"
They walked with God, talked with God and enjoyed the Presence of God. What happened to cause blindness and shame? Listen to this argument. If God is present at every point in space, if we cannot go where He is NOT, why then has not that Presence become the one universally celebrated fact of the world? The Presence and the manifestation of the Presence are not the same. There can be the one without the other. God is here when we are wholly unaware of it. He is manifest only when and as we are aware of His Presence! On our part, there must be a surrender to the Spirit of God, for His work is to show us the Father and the Son. If we cooperate with Him in loving obedience, God will manifest Himself to us, and that manifestation will be the difference between a nominal Christian life and a life radiant with the light of His face. Today we see in America Christians who are content with living as the world lives and giving God His due when they feel they need something from Him. James 4:1-4 “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.”
What does this have to do with the Presence of God? James 4:8-10 "Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.”
I am sure that Adam and Eve lived the rest of their lives wanting to get back to enjoying the Presence of God and not just the manifestation of His Presence. Biblical Christianity teaches us the through the death, burial and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, He has enabled us to come into a personal relationship with God. The Bible tells us that the Holy Spirit is dwelling in the hearts of believers and we do not have to be limited to the manifestation of God’s Presence, we can live in His Presence through the indwelling Holy Spirit. God’s Spirit is His Presence and He is always present with us! “Oh, may He come to us now and light up the sanctuary of our hearts until they shall shine like the chambers above!... His own immediate, everlasting Presence, Amen!” Tozer