Well, why does God hide himself from believers?

It's a question we have touched on on the podcast, but we need to address it head on and we

do so today through a question sent to us from James, a listener and Toledo, Ohio.

Hello, Pastor John.

Thank you for this podcast way back in APJ 338.

You said God sometimes chooses to withdraw from us his manifest, experienced, known,

tasted sweetness of his presence.

But you also said that God never leaves or for sakes his people either.

So God never for sakes his people, but he sometimes withdraws from them the sweetness

of communion with him.

He hides his face as the psalmist says in about a dozen places.

In that episode, you demonstrated conclusively why this dynamic is equally outwork in the

old covenant and the new covenant alike.

At the end of it, you said, God has quote, his reasons for doing this in quote, but that

quote, maybe there would be another time for us to talk about that in quote.

That was eight years ago, I don't know that you have addressed it since.

Can you now explain some of the reasons why God would intentionally hide his face from

us?

So important.

Yeah.

Let me repeat the very, very crucial central statement that he made.

He said this.

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