Just as greater than all lights on earth is the sun, so beyond all the thoughts within Scripture is God. Yet, how do we approach him, seek him, or find him?
Let us be Muslim and talk about turning inward, yet only innocent children know that God is truly and more so outward beyond, above the clouds, where heaven is. It is simple.
God is holy and not imaginary. In your presence there is fullness of joy, writes the Psalmist. He is known and sensed in reverence and in sanctity. He is not a thought, nor a term, or only the thought of the all seeing eyes of God upon man. It is his holy being, known as the holiest of holies, possibly here right now. He is here. The Lord your God will be with you wherever you go, says Moses.
As incense may fill a sanctuary, so it is with God, who may descend upon a cathedral, capable of being sensed upon the skin and within the body. Where can I go from your Spirit, where can I flee from your presence, writes St. David?
It is the substance of holy peace that rests upon the Christian, it is the fruit of the Spirit, the peace of God, yet also the substance of his being.
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh, writes the author of the book of Hebrews, Let us draw near with a true heart. The holiest, as is written, is the presence of God, Jesus is the way within, and the veil being our unbelief and faithlessness.