What then is the use of the command, "Behold, your God!"
Q: Why tell people to behold God, when He is invisible, and no man
hath seen Him, and no man can see Him?
He even hides Himself, so that nobody can see Him, and then sends us a message, saying, "Behold Me, behold Me." Isa. lv. 1.
Q: Where is the consistency?
This is a fair specimen of the fault that many people find with God and His Word. They make out what seems a very plausible case against Him, and think that they have abundant excuse for their unbelief.
Now when it appears that there is not the least inconsistency here, nor shadow of unreasonableness, it ought for ever to put an end to all cavil. When God rests His case on the most inconsistent terms possible, and nevertheless shows Himself perfectly true, it necessarily follows that no case can possibly be made to stand against Him. "The foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men." 1 Cor. i. 25.
---There is such a thing as seeing the invisible.
The things that are impossible to human sight are very easy when the eyes of our understanding are enlightened.
By the Holy Spirit. Moses "endured as seeing Him who is invisible." Heb. xi. 27. Our light afflictions work out for us an eternal weight of glory, "while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen." 2 Cor. iv. 18."
E.J. Waggoner
