READ: John 14:5-20
As a boy, I was fascinated by the book The Invisible Man. The main character played an elaborate game of hide-and-seek, staying just out of reach of mere mortals “cursed” with a visible nature. To have a physical presence, he wore clothes and wrapped his face in bandages. When it was time to escape, he simply removed everything and disappeared.
I wonder if we have similar thoughts about our unseen God. We feel He is beyond our reach and express it in song with one of my favorite hymns:
Immortal, invisible, God only wise,
In light inaccessible
Hid from our eyes.
Yet, while declaring the wonder of God, the hymn speaks of a God who is not just invisible:
All praise we would render—O help us to see
’Tis only the splendor of light hideth Thee!
We perceive that God is distant, far off, inaccessible, and hidden. But we need a God who is accessible, and we wonder how to have a meaningful relationship with Him.
We will never fully comprehend what God is like. Yet He Himself is accessible to us. In part, that is why Jesus came—to “show us the Father” (John 14:8-11) and to bring us close to Him, because “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation” (Col. 1:15).
Bible in One Year: Zechariah 7–9; Proverbs 29:21-27
