"God, are you there?" This question is as natural to the human experience as, Why is the sky blue? or Why am I here? or Will I ever find true love? The equation seems logical enough. It is so simple that even a child could conceive its parts. The equation embodies a mystery that has been haunting me most all of my life. It goes something like this: 1. If God is all-powerful, just as the pages of the Bible teaches me, 2. If God loves me and truly wants to know me, so much so that He would introduce Himself with names like Father and Emmanuel (God with Us), and 3. If God is an effective and apt communicator, so much so that He would invent language, make us relational beings and adopt the name "The Word," then why does He hide from me most of the time?
