A Testable Hypothesis: God is not ‘hiding’ from those who honestly and seriously seek for him.

(There is a standing invitation open for any person to know whether there is a God. God himself has made it plain and freely accessible. It has been stated thus: ‘those who seek me with their whole heart shall surely find me’.

It is an invitation freely extended to all, inviting us to ‘test the hypothesis’ as it were. Knowledge in science is gained in this way and considered a reliable method. It is a pathway to discovery and knowing, and provides a sound basis for believing something to be true.

With this opportunity comes a challenge and a dilemma. Can a person claim that God does not exist if not having engaged with him heart to heart, as invited, about the matter of belief? Such a quest does not require academic pursuit so much as an engagement in making a choice about what to do with this offer of knowing him that is put within reach of any person. It does not lend credibility to the claim, all too often made, that God has not provided enough evidence for us to know.

God himself warns that where reason and logic have held a person’s heart aloof, such arguments will be found wanting when they find themselves in his presence with nothing but eternal regret at having so lightly dismissed an opportunity so accessible and so generously offered. It is only God’s enemy who could want to induce any person into making such a calamitous choice as to not believe - unfortunately a position being widely promoted and made popular in our times - where our own resourcefulness and giftedness so disguises from us the finiteness of our perceptions.

From the experience of this writer, I would implore giving serious consideration to all invitations that God puts on offer. They are backed by his integrity and bring benefits far beyond what the natural mind and our earthly experience could ever dream possible. Why should any person want to risk missing such opportunity regarding issues of this life that are so fundamental and far reaching in their consequence? If there is any foundation to the truth of the ‘God who is there’ , then our destiny for all time depends crucially upon him and our relationship with him. 

However noble the motive, would not declining to accept such an invitation, so generously offered, be in essence saying to a Supreme Being that we know better? Surely no one knows better, or more fully, about a creative work than the artist or author of it themselves.

It is a humble heart that will be enabled to fully receive this offer of the gift that is God.)

References:

But even there, if you seek God, your God, you'll be able to find him if you're serious, looking for him with your whole heart and soul. Deuteronomy 4:29 MSG

You will seek me and find me, when you search for me with all your heart. Jeremiah 29:13 ESV

Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know. Jeremiah 33:3 NIV

. . . anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. Hebrews 11: 6b NIV

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man is there among you who, when his son asks for a loaf, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he will not give him a snake, will he? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give what is good to those who ask Him!” Matthew 7: 7‑11 NASB

Acknowledge the God of your father, and serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands every desire and every thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you.
1 Chronicles 28:9 NIV

This is what the LORD says to Israel: "Seek me and live.”
Amos 5:4 NIV

Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. Isaiah 55:6 NIV

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me. Proverbs 8:17 NKJV

The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. Psalm 34:10 NIV

Those who know your name trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you. Psalm 9:10 NIV

Therefore say thou unto them, “Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.” Zechariah 1:3 KJV

“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by human hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything. Rather, he himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else. From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’ Acts 17: 24‑29 NIV

 "As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a whole heart and a willing mind; for the LORD searches all hearts, and understands every intent of the thoughts If you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.” 1 Chronicles 28:9 NASB

Now the Spirit of God came on Azariah the son of Oded, and he went out to meet Asa and said to him, "Listen to me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: the LORD is with you when you are with Him And if you seek Him, He will let you find Him; but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you. 2 Chronicles 15: 1‑2 NASB

Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near.
Let the wicked forsake their ways and the unrighteous their thoughts.
Let them turn to the Lord, and he will have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will freely pardon.
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:6‑9 NIV

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