Tuesday
June 8
Why Doesn't God
Show Himself to Me? |
EVIDENCE
Isa. 58:6-9
The statement has been made over and over again: “If only God would reveal
Himself to me, then | would believe in Him." Why does God have to prove Himself
to you? Doesn't that take away our ability to choose? Would you believe it was God
if He did show Himself to you? God cannot fully reveal Himself to us until we
believe in Him. Only once we have a close relationship with God are we able to see
God in His full glory.
Isaiah 58:6-9 tells us what having a relationship with God will do in our lives.
Each verse gives us a different aspect to a part of our relationship with God. The
following is a brief breakdown of each verse so that we can better understand how
to apply it to our lives.
“Is this not the fast that | have chosen” (verse 6, NKJV). Fasting is not one of
the most popular things to do in our society today. Neither is it God's design that
we live in a world filled with wickedness. Therefore God provided us with fasting to
“loose the bonds of wickedness” (verse 6, NKJV). By being able to get rid of
wickedness and heavy burdens in our lives, we are drawn closer to Him.
By being drawn closer to God, we begin to see needs in the world around us.
God will show you how you can help someone in need. It can be as simple as feed-
ing the hungry, helping the poor, and giving clothes to the naked. These things and
more will be desires that God puts
in your heart when you build a
closer relationship with Him. God cannot fully reveal
Once we have drawn ourselves Himself to us until we
closer to God, we will begin to see believe in Him.
the world differently. “Then your
light shall break forth” (verse 8,
NKJV). People will be able to see a difference in your character and personality
because God will be living inside you.
Are you still wondering why God doesn’t reveal Himself to you? “Then you shall
call, and the Lord will answer; you shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here | am’” (verse 9,
NKJV). God will reveal Himself to you after you take the time to get to know Him
and His will. Only by knowing Him will you be able to see Him when He does reveal
Himself to you.
REACT
Is there something that God has been trying to show me about Himself that |
have been too caught up in the world to notice?
Lindsey Sands, Westmont, Illinois
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