It’s a question that comes from the honest heart of every believer at some point. We live in a world where seeing often feels like believing, and so we wonder: if God is real, why can’t we see Him with our eyes? Yet this longing itself—the ache to see and know God—is already a sign of His presence stirring in us.
In the Gospel of John, Jesus says, “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed” (John 20:29). He isn’t asking us to accept blindly, but to open our eyes in a different way—to see with the heart as well as the mind. God’s invisibility isn’t absence. It’s a mystery of love that invites faith, because love, too, cannot be seen, yet we know when it is real.
The invisible God reveals Himself constantly: in creation that speaks of order and beauty, in the conscience that whispers right from wrong, in moments of mercy that touch us deeper than words. Saint Paul wrote, “Ever since the creation of the world, His invisible nature has been clearly seen in the things that have been made” (Romans 1:20). The sunrise, the face of a child, the forgiveness we did not deserve—all these are traces of the unseen God moving within our visible world.
And most of all, God became visible in Jesus Christ. In Him, the invisible God took on a human face, so that we might never again say, “I do not know what God is like.” When we look at Christ—His compassion, His truth, His sacrifice—we see the heart of the invisible Father made known to us.
Faith does not erase our desire to see; it transforms it. One day, Scripture promises, we shall “see Him face to face” (1 Corinthians 13:12). For now, we walk by faith, but not in darkness—because the invisible God has left His light everywhere.
When we quiet our hearts and look with love, the invisible becomes clear. Faith is not blindness; it is sight born of trust.
— Fr. John Matthew, for Christian Way
