I remember three incidents in scripture where God physically appears to someone, or to a group of people:
This would seem to be the easiest way to get people to believe in God. Or so we think. Either it is, or we’ve thought of something God has not, which makes us smarter than God. Or God does know, yet won’t do what He knows is the best way to save us, which makes God evil. Or, it is actually for our benefit that God doesn’t show up, in every generation, to every person, physically.
The third option is obviously the truth. But why?
If God showed up in your room right now, and you knew without a shadow of a doubt it was the true and living God, what would be your moral obligation?
SUBMISSION.
Plain and simple.
Now we assume that if God showed up, and we KNEW WITHOUT ANY DOUBT AT ALL IT WAS HIM, then we’d automatically give our lives to him in perfect holiness, being the good-people-on-the-inside that we are and all.
But God knows better.
Though we can’t imagine looking God in the face and flat out, once and for all, rejecting him, that is exactly what most of us, if not all of us, would do. In fact, we do it every day. Every day we act as if we don’t KNOW THAT WE KNOW THAT WE KNOW there is a GOD! We ignore him. We even HOPE that evolution is true so we can eat, drink, have sex, and melt into nothingness! No responsibility. NO ACCOUNTABILITY. NO GOD!! WHAT A LIFE!
Do we honestly believe it impossible to reject God to his face?
Lucifer and one third of the angels did it.
Adam and Eve did it.
Many in Israel did it when Jesus was on earth.
Are we any different from these?
It is God’s mercy that motivates Him to hide himself.
The less we see him, the better. The more we see Him, the less of an excuse we have, and the less time we have to change our minds, if we could change our minds at all after seeing him and rejecting him directly.
Thank God He hasn’t come to us physically.
Yet.
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