A puppet God?

There are times i have thougth that we defend God alot and that He should just appear face to face and defend himself. Questions upon questions have been asked about the character of God and there has been little data to answer them. Why doesn't God present Himself live live and answer these questions?

As i ponder over these questions it has hit me that we cannot defend God in the sense of a battle field or present perfect arguements as to why He does somethings and "refuses" to do other things. But we can explain somethings according to the revelation he has given us. This could be through His word (Bible) or personal experiences from ordinary life as well as from the nature around us.

Last week on Tuesday (as usual) we had a bible study with the students. Many of the students didn't show up because was exam time and they needed to prepare.All the same we had an interesting discussion about God. One of the questions that come up is why doesn't God Himself come down and show Himself so that those who doubt His existence can believe?.
The immediate assumption of this question is that people believe with proof. I would understand, atleast from the perspective that we live in a world where we have faith in what has proved to work. After all why should you believe in a machine that doesn't work? I am a student of mathematics and proofs are important in order to have faith in a model or a formula. But should we subject God to similar treatment? Only if we make God our equal and assume that he breathes the oxygen we breath and eats bread and cheese as we do.

As we discussed it became clearly that there are people who would only believe in God if He really appeared. While there may be some truth in that, this option was rather weak since God Himself has already shown up 2000 yrs ago in the Person of Jesus Christ but men rejected him. Men refused to believe in Him even the learned teacher of the Law who had studied the law to know when and how the messiah could come. We don't dispute that there are those who belived in Him and are saved, the point is Man will always have an excuse as to why they can't believe in God. The Bible stories of the Man born blind (John 9:1-34) and the Rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) demonstrates this best.God on the other side can't force them to do so-he has given them the free will (God is a risk taker in that he creates a human being with a free will with includes the freedom to reject Him).

The question still remains, why doesn't He appear as many times as possible until the whole world is saved? The assumption here being that there more God shows himself up the more the people believe. But imagine that kind of a God who behaves like an errand boy and responds to our challenges of Him showing up. Isn't this a PUPPET GOD, that we all will make fun of? God is sovereign, he is our creator and our master. Everything we have we owe it to Him including our precious lives. Unless we have such like a view we will always think God as our peer.

As i had my devotions the day after i read the story about Zachaeus from the bible. This was a short man wanting to have a glimpse of Jesus. His quest to have a glimpse at Jesus was genuine to the extent of climbing a tree inorder to see Jesus pass. When Jesus gets to the tree He tell Him to come down because He would like to have Lunch at his home. Zachaeus is really excited and welcomes Jesus and Zachaeus receives salvation.
This story revealed one thing to me. That if people really what God to show Himself He will if it is an honest and genuine desire to believe in Him. God doesn't slam the door shut to every sincere and honest seeker of Him. He understands our struggles with the many answered questions about Him, but as the bible tells us ....the things that God has revealed to us belong to us and our children but those that He has not belong to Him. we can be humble enough to sit at His feet so that he can reveal more to us. But the first step have a relationship with Him. So things we make sense immediately others will not but it is only Him who knows why they don't make sense and why He has not chosen to reveal them to us.