Odds, Ends and Stray Musings: God's Nearness

 

Some people say they have an absence of evidence for God’s existence or that He has remained hidden from them. The problem is, if God knows us and cares about us even more than we know and care about ourselves (as per Acts 17:27-28 - 'In Him we live and move and have our being), then He cannot really be absent or hidden. It must be the case that something in the individual human state - whether distraction, woundedness, pride, fear, myopia, or simply not being ready yet – prevents the individual from recognising Him, as He is already as near as we need Him to be (especially given verses like 2 Corinthians 4:4; Ephesians 4:18 and John 1:10–11).