Can I See God?

We were driving in the car the other day and my son Joshua had some building blocks in the backseat of the car and was putting them together in a complex arrangement. Trying to have a conversation with him, I asked him what he was doing.

His response was, "I'm trying to put God together."

I kind of half-smiled and replied, "And why would you want to do that?"

My 7-year old almost made me melt when he said, "So I can see Him."

How often do we as people go through life and wish we could catch just a glimpse of what God looks like? I mean, God is everywhere, all around us, so why can't we see him?

Jesus tells the story of the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25, and he says that he "was hungry and we gave him something to eat, thirsty and we gave him something to drink," etc....

Then he concludes the passage with this statement, "Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me."

God is all around us, and we can see him, but we have to first open up our eyes.