Psalm 139:7-10

There is a Looney Tunes character called Droopy, a rather depressed basset hound. There is an episode of Looney Tunes in which Droopy is after an escaped criminal. The criminal flees all over the world to evade capture, but whenever he gets anywhere, Droopy is already there, ready to apprehend him. No matter how many times the criminal runs away, or how far away he goes, Droopy is already there.

These few verses in Psalm 139 speak of God much like Droopy in this episode of Looney Tunes. It mentions places that we could never hope to go to in the physical world - Heaven, the world of the dead, beyond the east and the farthest place in the west - and says that even if we were to go there, God would be there first.

There is nowhere we can go that God is not. There is nowhere that we could venture without running into God at every turn; He is there every step of the way, and when we get there, He's already there as well.

For the escaped criminal in the Looney Tunes clip, the fact that Droopy was always one step ahead of him and cut him off at every turn drove him so mad that he begged to be let back into prison. But God isn't trying to catch us out by always being one step ahead; instead, He is supporting us and helping us.