“O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my thoughts even when I’m far away. You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do. You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord. You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too great for me to understand! I can never escape from your Spirit! I can never get away from your presence! If I go up to heaven, you are there; if I go down to the grave, you are there. If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans, even there your hand will guide me, and your strength will support me. I could ask the darkness to hide me and the light around me to become night— but even in darkness I cannot hide from you. To you the night shines as bright as day. Darkness and light are the same to you. You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb. Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. You watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. How precious are your thoughts about me, O God. They cannot be numbered! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the grains of sand! And when I wake up, you are still with me! O God, if only you would destroy the wicked! Get out of my life, you murderers! They blaspheme you; your enemies misuse your name. O Lord, shouldn’t I hate those who hate you? Shouldn’t I despise those who oppose you? Yes, I hate them with total hatred, for your enemies are my enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.”
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Psalms‬ ‭139‬:‭1‬-‭24‬ ‭NLT

Modern Christianity tends to be rather gnostic in its understanding of who God is. This is proliferated by the idea that he is somehow a force of nature that is part of our binary understanding of things. We often reduce God to being his outcomes and therefore reduce him. By thinking that he is a constrained being and understanding things from our limited perspective, we lack the scope provided by revelation. God is not constrained. Understanding this is helped by understanding the difference between descriptions. Our negative descriptions do not describe him but rather what he isn’t. For instance, God is love. To us, this states that God is not apathy. This follows because apathy is the opposite of love. However, apathy is actually not a description of something, but rather an attitude toward something else. Love is a thing, but apathy is a “not thing.” We often think God couldn’t traverse into a Not Thing. God can’t be in darkness, in hate, in lies, or even in sin, but those are things one can be in. They are negative descriptions of things that are. They are negative poles of things. Darkness is a negative description of light; Lies for truth and righteousness for sin. God is omni, because there is nothing he cannot be. Or perhaps it is clearer to say that he can be everything that is. God cannot lie because lies are not a thing. They are negative descriptions of truth. This is precisely why God can’t be a liar but can also be used to lie. It is also why God cannot sin but sin can happen around God. The most extreme theology surrounding this would be to say that God can even take our sin upon himself. It seems contradictory to say that until you understand that sin a Not-Thing. This isn’t to say that this Not-Thing has no meaningful effect. A lie is a Not-Thing, but it has a real effect in time and space. Sin is a Not-Thing, but it very seriously leads to real outcomes. Nevertheless, though it may be, for all intents and purposes, real for the creation, it has no constraint upon God. This is how he effectively remains the God of both the sinner and the saint. This is how he is both God in darkness and in light. This is why there is not territory that doesn’t belong to him. This is why death has no hold upon him. Meaning, for God is ascribed, he is never constrained by it.