Bless the LORD, O my soul!
O LORD my God, you are very great!
You are clothed with splendor and majesty,
covering yourself with light as with a garment,
stretching out the heavens like a tent.
He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters;
he makes the clouds his chariot;
he rides on the wings of the wind;
he makes his messengers winds,
his ministers a flaming fire.
He set the earth on its foundations,
so that it should never be moved.
You covered it with the deep as with a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.
At your rebuke they fled;
at the sound of your thunder they took to flight.
The mountains rose, the valleys sank down
to the place that you appointed for them.
You set a boundary that they may not pass,
so that they might not again cover the earth. | Psalm 104:1–9
Would you like to see God? We have learned that we cannot see God. Nobody has ever seen God.
Why can we not see God?
We cannot see God because He is spirit. We cannot see a spirit. What is a spirit?
Well, when god made you, He gave you a body and a spirit, or soul. Your spirit lives inside your body. Your spirit is the real you. It is your spirit, inside your body, that listens while we read; it is your spirit that thinks, and loves; it is your spirit that is happy and makes you smile; it is your spirit that is sad sometimes, and makes the tears come.
Nobody can see your spirit. But you can feel it living there, inside of you.
Now God is all spirit. He does not have a body. That is why we cannot see Him. But He sees and hears and loves; He sees and hears much more than we can see or hear, even though we cannot see Him.
There is a reason, too, why we must not see God. God is all glorious. That means that He is very holy and shiny bright.
The Bible tells us about a man names Moses. Moses was a good friend of God. God often talked to Moses. But Moses never saw God.
One day Moses said to God, “Please, show me Your glory.”
God said to Moses, “No man can see Me and live. But I will hide you in the rocks, and then I will pass by you.”
Moses went up on a mountain alone. God hid him between the rocks, and God passed by him. God let Moses see just a little bit of His glory. Even a man like Moses could not stand to see more than that of God’s glory.
When Moses came down from the mountain, his face was bright as sunshine. Just seeing a little of God’s glory had made his face shine so bright that the people were afraid of him.
The glory of God is so bright that nobody could bear to see Him. We cannot bear to look at the sun when it shines bright. It hurts our eyes to look at the sun. God’s glory is much greater than the glory of the sun.
It is good that we cannot see God.
The sunshine and the stars tell us about His glory. But if we saw Him, or even part of His glory, we would be very afraid. We could not even live!
Something to talk about:
- Has anybody ever seen God?
- Why is it that we cannot see God?
- Why would it not be good for us to see God?
- Why should we be happy that we cannot see God?
Bible Memory:
But,” He said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.| Exodus 33:20