A First Lesson About God

One of the first things learned about God is that He is neither silent nor hidden.  Anyone who lives with the idea that God does not really reveal Himself, or speak to be heard is someone who simply ignores the witness of the Scripture.  In the beginning we are told by the Word that the Lord God walked "in the garden at the time of the evening breeze..."  and that He "called to the man, and said to him,"Where are you?' "  (Genesis 3:8-9)  In the beginning He was neither silent nor hidden and those who shared life in the garden lived expecting Him to be present with them.      

Somewhere along the way the church became too sophisticated to embrace the idea of a God who speaks and reveals Himself to His people.  Perhaps, the first step was acknowledging that He did do both at one time to certain people for certain purposes, but the time for such is now past.  Only those fundamentalists who live on the theological fringes would dare speak of such happening and when they do, they are dismissed by the mainstream church crowd.    

What is more likely is not the possibility that God has changed His mode of operation, but the likelihood that we have lost the expectation required to pay attention to the revelation of divine realities.  The fact that we do not see or hear does not force God to lurk silently out there invisible to all of creation.  As He has been since before the time we know as the beginning, so shall He remain after the time we know as the end.