It’s hard to believe in anything you can’t see. Why has God made it so difficult for people who would believe in him if they could only see him?
God could appear to anyone anyway he wants. But if he suddenly appeared, most people would feel forced or intimidated into following him, rather than loved into it. God wants us to respond out of love for him, not fear!
The truth is that people can see God . . . through the eyes of faith. This means taking God at his word--opening ourselves up to him. Some people say 'seeing is believing.' The truth is that 'believing is seeing.'
All of us believe in people or things we've never seen; for example, people in history, gravity, or the wind. Everyone has the capacity to believe things that aren't seen. The bottom line for most who say, 'I can't believe in something I haven't seen,' is 'I won't believe in God, because I want to run my own life.' God doesn't work that way. Each person must trust in Christ, acknowledging him as Savior.
Peter said that loving God, even though we have never seen him, will bring us 'a glorious, inexpressible joy' (1 Pet 1:8). Jesus said, 'Blessed are those who believe without seeing me' (John 20:29; see also Heb 11:1.)
'We live by believing and not by seeing' (2 Cor 5:7).
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