What if I told you I owned a brand-new Lamborghini and it
was sitting in my garage right now? If you knew me you would probably say I
couldn’t afford such a high-priced car on a high-school teacher’s salary. Of
course, you’d be right. But all you would have to do is call my hand and say,
“Show me the Lamborghini.” And if I couldn’t produce the goods, I would be a
fraud.
It’s a little different when it comes to producing
“the goods” on God. We just can’t pray a prayer or snap our fingers and
presto!—God appears and dispels any question about his existence. To be
truthful, even that might not persuade some people to believe in him. But the
fact is, God in a real sense remains hidden to us as a material
being. The Scripture says, “God is Spirit, so those who worship him must
worship in spirit and in truth” ( John
4:24). And as a spirit, God is invisible to us (see 1 Timothy 1:17). You
see, he is on another plane of existence than we humans. We are not meant to
see him in all his awesome power and might. He told Moses, “You may not look
directly at my face, for no one may see me and live” (Exodus 33:20).
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