Mom, Why Can't I See God?

As Timmy laid down in bed, he asked me: "Mom, why can't I see God?"
I answered him: "Because God is in your heart. It's like wind. Although you can't see wind, but you can feel the wind."

But...I'm interested to find out more of his unique question.

There are so many answers out there in the internet, from the scientific one to the funny ones. "We cannot see God because he needs his privacy," says Patrick, 10. Patrick probably doesn't want anyone coming into his room without knocking first.

Megan, 8, thinks God likes to be alone. "If everybody saw him, they could always crowd around him." If we want to see God, we need to put up our antennae, says Laia, 14. "It's kind of like a human holding a very small bug. The bug knows something is out there, but because his vision is limited, it's hard for him to see the human. God is so much bigger. We can't see His form, but He's out there."


However, I like the answers provided by Got Questions Kids: http://www.gqkidz.org/see-God.html. Would like to share it with you today:


God does not have a body like a person that we can see and touch.

God is invisible to us because He is a Spirit. Unlike a human being, He does not have a body. Even though we can't see God, He is everywhere, just like the air is everywhere. We can't see the air, but we believe it is there because we breathe it, see it move tree branches, and feel it blow our hair. In the same way, we can't see God, but we can see the things He does. God made everything in the earth and in outer space. He made you!

God is not like us. He knows everything, can do anything, and is everywhere at once. Even though we can't see God, God wants us to believe that He is real. Believing God is real so much that you obey Him is called faith. God tells us about Himself in the Bible. If you read the Bible, you will know more and more about God without needing to see Him.

Bible Truth
"There are things about God that people cannot see – his eternal power and all the things that make him God. But since the beginning of the world those things have been easy to understand. They are made clear by what God has made. So people have no excuse for the bad things they do" (Romans 1:20, NCV).

"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him" (Hebrews 11:6).


...continue.
I told Timmy about the answers that I found out last night and he asked me again:
"Mom, if God is so big, how can He be in me?"

Oh this boy sure does asks interesting questions. :)

"No one has ever seen God, but if we love each other, God lives in us, and his love is made perfect in us. . . . Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God has God living inside, and that person lives in God" (1 John 4:12, 15, NCV).