There are two different ways of asking “Where is God? Why does God hide himself?” One way is scornful, hostile, and truly God-less, like the abuse and mockery hurled at Jesus on the cross: “He trusted in God to deliver him, so let God deliver him!” The people who yelled that insult thought they knew who God was and what God would and would not do (Matt. 27:43; also Ps. 22:8). But the other way of asking, like the poet Cowper’s way, comes from deep faith. It comes from having at least a partial knowledge of God and of the darkness that opposes God. This is a thread that runs through the whole
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