Our religion is one where God has reached out to communicate to man and He wants to be seen. He wants to be perceived. He wants you to recognize Him. He wants you, in your pursuit of holiness, to be changed into his likeness from one degree of glory to the next by looking on Him, knowing that when we perceive Him as He is, when we see Him as He is, we should be like Him.
10 Then the disciples came and said to him, “Why do you speak to them in parables?” 11 And he answered them, “To you it has been given to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. 12 For to him who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away. 13 This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand.
I was having a chat with a friend a little while ago and he was concerned about why God didn't make himself more obvious. You get into these discussions about belief and getting people to believe in God and Jesus and they hoist up their pants and they say, “Well, why isn’t He more obvious? Why can’t He prove Himself? Why does not God make Himself more presently known?” And so, I looked at him and I said, “Well because He doesn't want you to know; not you generally as man, you personally as you. He doesn't want you to know.”
“Aren’t I supposed to convince people who don’t have a clue? Well, there’s something about that person God would like out of them. Without faith it is impossible to please God. For anyone who draws near to God must first believe He exists and that He rewards those who seek Him.
So, someone who choses to say, “Oh I don’t know God. I don’t see any evidence for God.” Okay, why doesn’t He show you evidence? Because He doesn’t want you to know. He doesn’t want you to know. The person who seeks God? God wants to be known by him and to know him because He is after those who seek Him.
14 With them indeed is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah which says:
‘You shall indeed hear but never understand,
and you shall indeed see but never perceive.
15 For this people’s heart has grown dull,
and their ears are heavy of hearing,
and their eyes they have closed,
lest they should perceive with their eyes,
and hear with their ears,
and understand with their heart,
and turn for me to heal them.’
