is that faith believes you are surrounded and indwelt by God, the Holy Spirit, all the time: you can never “escape” from this fact, you can never leave His presence bcos He lives in you, you are in UNION with Christ – you are always conscious that God is there, everywhere you look, and everything you see with your eyes, or can’t see, you understand that God has created it, and He owns it, and He has authority over it.
You have unbroken communion with God, thru Jesus His Son.
And even, more so, in your pain you know that He knows and cares, and you know you are not alone.
Unbelief in Christians speaks in terms of distance or proximity to God (more representative of the OT than the NT) and therefore it is occupied with doing something to bridge that distance. It is always from a conscience that witnesses of its separation from God.
Many of the modern worship songs are such statements of unbelief.
Ian Vincent 
October 31, 2011 at 12:05 am
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Interesting that an Old Covenant man could say this:
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[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] O LORD, you have searched me, and known me.
You know my downsitting and my uprising, you understand my thought afar off.
You search out my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether.
You have hedged me behind and before, and laid your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.
Where shall I go from your Spirit? or where shall I flee from your presence?
If I ascend up into heaven, you are there: if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall your hand lead me, and your right hand shall hold me.
If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hides not from you; but the night shines as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to you.
For you have formed my inward parts: you have covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise you; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvelous are your works; and that my soul knows right well. My frame was not hid from you, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes did see my substance, being yet unformed; and in your book they were all written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.
How precious also are your thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with you.
(Psalm 139:1-18)
October 31, 2011 at 3:17 am
We could write a long list of the unbelieving jargon which the younger generation is now using in reference to God. Just read on a forum a young man saying he went a youth meeting to “connect with God”, which means he is still yet to believe the Gospel.
He believes he is unconnected to God, but thru the recitation of certain mystical “worship” mantras, then he gets “connected”.