Keep Seeking: Chapter 2
“Ground Rules”
Exploring the deeper questions and themes behind Chapter 2.
Topics Covered in This Chapter
Topic 1 - Why does God seem hidden?
How do we balance the narrative that God wants to have a personal relationship with us while He also seems to be so hidden from us.
Topic 2 - The Trinity
How do we even begin to wrap our minds around the truth that God is both three and one at the same time?
Topic 3 TBD
Brief context for what this topic explores — why it matters and how it connects to the themes of this chapter.
Topic 4 TBD
Brief context for what this topic explores — why it matters and how it connects to the themes of this chapter.
Topic 1 - Why does God seem hidden?
Author Notes
One of the questions that lingers underneath much of this chapter is a simple but honest one: Why does God seem hidden? If God truly exists, why doesn’t He just “show up” and make Himself unmistakably known? I suspect there are many reasons for this, and we touch on several throughout the book. One is the way God progressively reveals Himself — not all at once, but in layers, over time. If the intricate design of the universe, the fine balance required for life, and the quiet order woven into creation itself go unnoticed, why would more dramatic revelation be received any differently? But I believe there’s something even deeper at work. Growth rarely comes from being spoon-fed. When everything is handed to us fully formed, it tends to make us passive and dependent. When we must learn to discern, to wrestle, to apply wise love in real relationships, something in us stretches — and that stretching produces maturity. I hint at this again later in the book, but the idea is simple: God seems less interested in creating spectators than in forming sons and daughters who can carry responsibility. And it may be that what we learn to pursue, discern, and practice now quietly shapes what we will one day be trusted with in the world to come.
Additional Research
Topic 2 - The Trinity
Author Notes
I don’t think we will ever — at least in this life — fully wrap our minds around the Trinity. And I’m actually at peace with that. Any God that I can completely understand and fully comprehend wouldn’t be much of a God at all. What’s fascinating is that the idea of the Trinity doesn’t arrive in Scripture as a single, neatly packaged doctrine. Instead, it appears like breadcrumbs scattered across the writings of multiple authors over thousands of years — small hints that slowly accumulate and invite us to piece the pattern together. To me, that actually strengthens the case for the divine inspiration of Scripture. The Trinity is not a concept that easily rises from human imagination alone. It stretches beyond what we would naturally invent, yet it emerges consistently as the full biblical story unfolds. If this is a topic you’d like to explore more deeply, a wonderful and accessible resource is Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves. It unpacks the beauty of the Trinity not as a puzzle to be solved, but as the living heartbeat of Christian faith.
Additional Research
Reeves, Michael. Delighting in the Trinity: An Introduction to the Christian Faith. 2nd ed., Crossway, 2012