The Hiddenness of God (Part 5)

"Now when all the people saw the thunder and the flashes of lightning and the sound of the trumpet and the mountain smoking, the people were afraid and trembled, and they stood far off and said to Moses, "You speak to us, and we will listen; but do not let God speak to us, lest we die.""
Exodus 20:18-19

People sometimes flippantly remark that if God was real, he should just show himself. Truth is, most of us get nervous just with human authority. Like the police stopping your car, your headmaster rebuking you as a child, or an assessment with your employer. What if God did just appear... the Commander-In-Chief of the Universe. What if his appearing was immediately followed by a confrontation?...

"Then the kings of the earth and the great ones and the generals and the rich and the powerful, and everyone, slave and free, hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, calling to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb, for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?""
Revelation 6:15-17

Perhaps his apparent hiddenness is, for the time being, a form of his grace.