Just because we cannot see God does not mean He is not present. He is, in spirit, all around us. For a year now, I’ve walked past this abandoned dwelling daily and never noticed it til recently. I didn’t see it, but it existed. This is not exactly a perfect analogy, but it’s what gave me the idea for this post so I’m running with it.

Also, my daily reading today included Deuteronomy 5:22-33. In the commentary of The Reformation Study Bible, editor R.C. Sproul brought to light Exodus 20:18-19, where the Israelites heard and saw several theophanies — visible and audible manifestations of God — which, he commented, frightened them such that they “asked that God speak no more to them directly but to address them only through Moses,” as mediator.

We later learn in Exodus 33:18, after Moses begged God to see His glory, that God warned him, ” … you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.” (Exodus 33:20) We need a mediator as God provided in Moses. Even before Moses’ time, Job longed for a mediator between him and God by lamenting, “There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both. Let him take his rod away from me, and let not dread of him terrify me.” (Job 9:33-34)

The book of Job is is just one of many examples in the Old Testament that points to the ultimate mediator between God and us, our Lord Jesus Christ. In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul pointed back to Jesus, “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him.” (Colossians 1:15-16)

Imagine being there when Jesus walked the earth. Wow. He is no longer visible to the human eye, just as the dwelling in the photo above is not visible in the summertime, but He still exists. He’s sitting at the right hand of God pleading our cases as our mediator. Praise God!