that. he is with us and he is present in spirit and fully aware of everything in the situation, but he is not present in body. so, it is even more awkward for us to insist that he is not present; but there are times we still feel that way.
i think part of the reason for that is that we are not drawing near to him. there is a sense in which god is present with us and yet we don’t feel close because we have failed to obey the command to draw near to him.
the problem here seems to be the sin when we look at the whole verse. 