It was during my morning prayer where I felt God was speaking to me about something I struggled with for a long time. It is the very fact that if God wants us to believe He exists, why doesn't He show Himself physically? This would be more an atheistic way of formulating the question, and because I already believed in God, my question was more like why can't God show Himself or speak to me directly with a loud, thundering voice so my faith would actually become solid and unwavering (more or less same line of question). But either way, God's answer was, "Why do you ask that you SEE me when the whole point of faith is to believe in the UNSEEN?" "It is believing in the unseen, this very faith, I delight in, bless, and work through."
Also He challenged me with, "Why do you only think my physically and audibly speaking to you is the only way I communicate with my children? It definitely isn't so, I communicate via various means such as through dreams, through people, through circumstances, and through the very Word I've provided all of you with." And soon I realized indeed that God had been speaking mostly through the Word in my life, where some of the Bible verses would conjure up in my head when I need them most. And too many times, we go without noticing that these ways are how God also talks to us, and we complain to Him for not physically whispering something in my ears when he in fact had been this whole time.
Finally, God intends to grow our faith slowly and gradually without shortcuts. Because as anything in life, He knows that faith built on the foundation of slow and gradual maturing process is what becomes strong, genuine eternal faith. Faith that had been abruptly made by for instance just SEEING Him in person is bound to abruptly diminish and be filled with doubts later on. I guarantee you somewhere down the road you may begin to question whether you had been just delusional, imagining things, or hallucinating. So let us delight in God of slowness yet always on time, God of gradual process which grows our patience, God of eternality who wants in us the eternal faith.
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