If you believe in God and if you believe that your reality is somehow within the bounds of his will, then God is everywhere and in all things. Why does such a powerful pervasive God hide from us behind a cloak of camouflage? God is hidden, so says Martin Luther who believed God stays hidden to reveal himself in Jesus Christ. This understanding may speak to his theological musings but could not the answer to the why question be simpler? God values seekers not necessarily saints.
The best
John Wayne movie was “the Searchers”.
For an hour and a half of the movie John Wayne is searching the plains
for a girl child captured by the Indians. He searched for years with laser like
focus, never giving up. The last few
minutes of the movie, the girl, now a young adult, is found and a cultural confrontation
ensues. The time numbers may be
exaggerated a bit but the point is that the searching was more important to the
movie than the finding.
We, as children
of God, are called by God to be searchers first and foremost. Religion maximizes the finding language
giving the new believers a place to land and stop searching and stop questioning.
G. Goslaw
Landers, CA
