WHITHER ART THOU

Many people are wondering why they have never seen God. An invisible God seems contrary to what one might expect is necessary for the smooth functioning of a society. They compare our eternal God to the hand-made but visible gods of other nations and conclude that our God also should be visible. They want to be able to question and challenge him.

When God is visible, we believe that he is real and when he is invisible we assume that he is not real. We make the same mistake that the Israelites made when they assumed that not being able to see God meant that he no longer was real. When we begin to assume that God no longer is real, we are tempted to create replicas such as the golden calf that the Israelites created. Also, we are prone to disobey his commands. God is as real today as he was in the time of Moses, Abraham and Jeremiah, and as he was when he walked the earth in the body of Jesus in the first century.