Why Does God Seem to Hide?

Some folks don’t believe in God because He
seems to be “hidden.” “Where is He?” they ask.
“If God exists, why doesn’t He come down and
say something?”

But this is exactly what the New Testament
says has happened! God came into human
history and spoke. God, the Son, walked among
human beings revealing to us what God is like.
Yet--even then--Christ spoke in parables. These
stories accomplished two purposes:

1. To reveal His message to willing listeners.
2. To conceal it from the unwilling. (Matthew 13:10-15).

The evidence for God’s existence does not
grab us by the back of the neck and shake us. But
God has given plenty of evidence in nature and a
storehouse of truth in Scripture to make our belief
rational. God is not hiding. He’s looking for willing
eyes and ears.

If we humble our hearts and seek
Him, we can find Him.