So, God must have a reason for hiding himself and hiding the truth. A lot will say, the truth isn't hidden, just read the Bible and the Koran. I've read them both, and the truth is hidden. Both books contain verses that say the opposite of what other verses say, leading people to opposite conclusions. Much of the Bible is hyperbole, poetry, parable, allegory, and symbolic, leading to God only knows how many conflicting interpretations. It simply isn't clear. The Koran severely contradicts itself. I'd be happy to provide a list of verses from the Koran that justify ISIS atrocities.
Even if the Bible and Koran contained clear instruction that didn't contradict itself, that still isn't enough. Everyone is different. Many of us need more than a book. We need clear instruction on what to do personally with our lives.
If God would just leave us clear messages every now and then, imagine how much good it would do. Imagine if every heretic heard the voice of God correcting them and telling them their errors. There wouldn't be so much division and confusion.
How many atheists would still be atheist if God was speaking clear messages to them and telling them what to do with their lives? Even if God just left a message in the sky once every 10 years, do you think even 1% of the world's population would still be atheist? Clearly God wants there to be Atheists.
I pray every day that God would tell me what to do with my time and my life because I simply don't know. I'd like to be doing with my time, what he/she wants me to do with my time. No matter how much I pray for those instructions, I don't get them. How is that benefiting me for God to refuse to give those instructions? If it does no good, and in fact does harm to the world, why does God do it?
What good does God hiding himself/herself do our world? If it doesn't do any good, then why does he/she do it?
Hiding in plain sight is how I understand the spiritual reality. The philosophical reality is that we are the ones hiding behind a false world/paradigm. And "behind" may not be the best preposition, as all of them plausibly work (i.e. in, beneath, around, etc.).
I honestly see God as closer to you than your nose. I realize that reads as if I'm speaking in metaphor, but I mean it literally. Closer to you (actual you) than your nose (which is not actually you).
In terms of God/Spirit communicating with you, I'll admit that it can be tricky, but is really (really really) a matter of perspective. I find God has never stopped communicating with Us. If expecting to find it in the form of scripture, I think it can be found, but is so indirect that it would take (great) discernment to realize it, or Grace to have it revealed as simple as it is. Even then, it would likely come off as impersonal, speaking to larger audience. So, I hear your words as a personal message that is the request. I used to not have any idea how to receive such messages, but was aware of people who did. I now receive personal messages often (more than once a day). When not receiving those, I still find that Spirit is communicating with us in a whole lot of ways, some of which are usually personal, but not taken as such. Like a song and specific lyrics may be exactly pertinent to precisely what was prayed/asked about within recent history, but because of prejudice to say, 'it's just a song written years ago, and let me spout off 17 other facts about the writing of that song,' it can then be easy to dismiss the (very obvious) message being conveyed.
For personal messages, I would say it takes a sense of knowing that it will happen. You could, I think, reference that as a sense of blind faith, but if wanting to have a debate on how that type of faith is best described and could function, I'd have it for the sheer intellectual entertainment and because I see blind faith as akin to taking anything in the world for granted and acting as if "I know" how this will go. Like driving on the highway at 65 with cars all around you and thinking you know that you'll be safe, cause of course everyone else will maintain same speed and what could possibly go wrong? I say this, because I think it helps early on, going from - I have no idea how to hear Spirit speaking directly to me - to - of course I or anyone can hear Spirit speaking directly and personally to me, and to Us, as needed or desired. Regardless of the circumstances. So to start, a sense of 'fake it, until you make it' might help. Then again, hearing 'fake messages' isn't going to get you all that far, unless hearing Spirit is for sheer entertainment purposes.
The only other thing I'd say in response to the post is I routinely find God to be quite satisfied with where I am/we are at right now. Prior to hearing Spirit, I fully anticipated that first messages would be in vein of "go forth and change your life significantly, for this is the Plan I have for you." Sure, there's some of that early on, cause well communicating with your Creator when discussing earthly life as if it could be summed up in a paragraph, will plausibly, I'd say likely, have you rethink a bunch of things currently on your path. But I think discernment would have you realize to get to where you are right now, means the communication has always been there, and your claims of "I don't know" are in essence, dishonest. You've always known, but because of faith in a false world that makes you think you (physical you) is yourself and spirit you (real you) is hidden, possibly non-existent, then you might show up at times as if ignorance truly is bliss, or even 'knowledge.'
