Psalm 13:1-6
A God Who Hides
1 How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever?
How long will you hide your face from me?
2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts
and day after day have sorrow in my heart?
How long will my enemy triumph over me?
3 Look on me and answer, Lord my God.
Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death,
4 and my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”
and my foes will rejoice when I fall.
5 But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.
6 I will sing the Lord’s praise,
for he has been good to me.
Matthew 27:46
My God, My God
46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?" (which means "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?").
Psalm 22:1-2
My God, My God Why Have You Forsaken Me
1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from my cries of anguish?
2 My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
by night, but I find no rest.
Jesus truly understood God...And God did not seem to hide from Him when we walked the earth...Or at least that is the impression I get, until Jesus says on the cross, My God, My God why have you forsaken Me...This is a quote from a Psalm that says, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?...Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?...My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer, by night, but I find no rest...And maybe at that point as we think about this quote from the Psalms, Jesus did not see or hear God...
But Jesus was a Mystery, and even as Jesus talked about God, He remained a Mystery at least to me...But we know that Jesus came from above and had been with God from the beginning...
But God most often seems to hide to me, and from me...I ask Him regularly why don't You show Yourself more...You did show Yourself to Job...More people would believe if they could see You or hear You...And wouldn't that be a good thing?...But He remains hidden from me...Why does He watch us from so far away, without giving us specific instruction?...
Will He forget me forever?...Why does He hide His face from me?...How long, my Father will You forget me?...How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day from not hearing or seeing You?...Why do You want the non-believer to constantly say there is no LORD when at anytime You can show Yourself?...How can I trust You, when I have not seen or heard from You?...
These are questions that have been around for many, many years...The Psalmist asks these questions...Job had similar questions...Other Biblical writers had them too...And I too have the very same questions...But we are to trust in the LORD and realize that He has complete understanding...And we must realize that Complete Understanding is LOVE...And God is LOVE...
But these questions remain...But realize, we really do realize that God's thoughts are not are thoughts, and our ways are not His ways...If we really understood God and all He did, then we would be God...Who else could we be if we understood everything He does?...We must learn to trust Him in His silence through His Word...His Word is everlasting...