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". . . says the Lord, 'Do I not fill heaven and earth?"
Jeremiah 23:24. (NKJV)
"Oh my God!" Those three words are spoken so often, we take them for granted. They spew from the mouths of our families, friends, people on the street--even small children.
We see them condensed into texting jargon as OMG. Teenage chat rooms and blogs constantly inject them on the internet. When asked on a survey what they mean the replies came: "Oh My God, don't you know?" "Oh my goodness", and "O my Gosh!" A web site titled omg focuses on hot celebrity gossip, photos, and videos; its spin off called OMG Magazine.
Those three words can express an incredible number of emotions from surprise, shock, repulsion, to love, delight, or joy, to pain and grief. Recently a jubilant Academy Awards winner, flaunting his Oscar high, shouted them out over the audience's roar of approval. Rarely a contemporary movie or TV show is seen without their inclusion.
On the one hand, it could be considered blasphemy: insensitivity, ignorance, immaturity all playing their parts. On the other, those three words are accepted as just something everyone says. But the Psalms assure us we can go nowhere from God's Spirit and we can not flee from His presence: those three words are His proof and His affirmation.
O my God, we cannot escape your love. You surround us even when we are too blind to see and too deaf to hear.
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(C) 2009 by Mary A. Koepke
Used by Permission
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About the Author. . .
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Mary A. Koepke is a prize-winning poet and artist residing in Zelienople, Pennsylvania. Her poetry has appeared in journals like Time of Singing, Poets At Work, the devotional collection Penned from the Heart, and in the Pennsylvania Poetry Society's contest winners anthology. Assisted by her daughter Chris-Ann K. Goosen, she published Listen, listen, do you hear. . .?, a collection of illustrated poems and prose. In 2004, she was an important contributor to Once Upon a Memory, an anthology of writing and art by residents of the Passavant Retirement Center.
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