Why Do We Hide?

Why Do We Hide?

Why do we hide from God?  Why do we regard everything in physical terms?  God has used many individuals in the Bible to bring to the attention of the people their erroneous ways of thinking and perceiving things in physical terms.  

We are the image and likeness of God.  Yes, there are physical aspects but the greatest aspect is our spiritual nature.  That should be the focus of our lives and attention – not the physical.  God discourages us from focusing on the physical.

God wants us to love Him for who He really is, not some physical form.  We fail to honor God and deceive when we focus on the physical and end up distracted by it.  We must seek after Him, who He is, and have a relationship with Him.  

We need to unburden ourselves of the physical world and seek after the spiritual relationship we should have with God.  The purest form of that relationship was in the Garden before the fall.  Why do we not seek to recapture that relationship, as it was in the Garden, by focusing on the spiritual nature rather than the physical nature Satan would have us follow?

We fail to see the truth because we have been blinded by Satan’s desire to corrupt and destroy creation as God made it and us to be.  We are to be brave and true to God’s intent and desire for us by standing in contrast to the desires of Satan and the world that follows him.