Fellow humans,
Why is God hiding from us? He used to walk in the Garden of Eden with Adam and Eve. His plan was to continue that relationship, then man and woman ate the forbidden fruit, and He vanished. Before you get flustered and jump to conclusions that I’m saying God is no longer with us, just keep reading.
Other than the Garden and 33 years of Jesus walking the earth, God no longer walks among us. He’s maintained some degree of distance from us. Why would He do that? Did He change His mind? Did we bring this upon ourselves?
If you can’t wrap your mind around the fact that God is now hidden from us, then answer a simple question. What does the Heavenly Father look like? Before humans started sinning, this question could be easily answered.
Sin is the short answer for why God is hiding, but let’s dig deeper.
Why did Adam and Eve disobey God? The same reason you and I disobey God today. We think that by putting restrictions into place, God is withholding a blessing from us. We fear that we’re missing out on the fun.
The serpent told Eve that “you will be like God” if you eat the fruit (Genesis 3:5). Adam and Eve were probably like, “wait, I can be my own god, and God is holding me back?!” It’s all lies, and it’s all about ego.
We sin because we believe the lie that a life of obedience to God is not worth living. He gave us perfect lives in the Garden, and we felt like we deserved more. We simply do not trust His plan for us, so we try to make our own.
Ego has always been the factor which inspires God’s creation to disobey Him. Lucifer was the same way. God threw him out of Heaven, and He threw us out of the Garden. There are consequences for our actions. Why shouldn’t there be?
I believe that God knows that because of our ego, the only way for us to truly seek Him with passion is when something bad happens to us, we lose hope, and seeking Him is the only workable option that we haven’t yet exhausted.
I personally know people who started taking God seriously when they thought they were going to die. As for me, I started taking God seriously when I found myself hopelessly stuck in a vicious cycle of sinful behavior. I was miserable.
God was not my first option. I wanted to live my way according to my own desires. I believed the lie that obedience to God is not worth the effort.
Any negative consequences that come from God are perfectly just. Over the years, I feel like He gave me 1,000,000 chances to put my faith in Jesus, turn away from my sin, and obey Him, yet I repeatedly chose the opposite path.
Frankly, we should be grateful that God only chose to hide from us, because if we take all of our disobedience into consideration, life could be a lot worse.
Until next time,
Salvatore Norge