1Ⅲ “Surely You are a God who hides Himself, / O God of Israel, the Savior” (Isa. 45:15):
2一 信徒可能认识神是全能的神,是公义的神,是满有恩典和慈爱的神,却不认识神是一位自隐的神。
2A Believers may know God as the almighty One, as the righteous One, as the One full of grace and compassion, but as the One who hides Himself, He is unknown to them.
3二 神在祂的子民中间,也在他们个人的生活里作了许许多多的事,但神却把自己隐藏起来:
3B God does countless things in the midst of His people and countless things in their personal lives, yet He conceals Himself:
41 神喜欢隐藏,我们却喜欢显扬;神不求外在的显明,但我们没有外在的显明就不满意。
41 God likes concealment, but we like display; God does not crave outward manifestations, but we cannot be content without them.
7b God was not in the great and strong wind, He was not in the earthquake, and He was not in the fire; instead, God spoke to Elijah in a “gentle, quiet voice” (v. 12).
8c The fact that God spoke to Elijah in a gentle, quiet voice indicates that God was ushering Elijah into the New Testament age, in which God speaks to His people not by thundering but gently and quietly (cf. 1 John 2:27).
9d Elijah said to God that he was the only faithful one left, but God very gently answered Elijah by saying that He had reserved for Himself seven thousand men who had not bowed the knee to Baal (1 Kings 19:18; cf. Rom. 11:2-5).
10e Elijah had reckoned the situation only with what he could see, but God is a God who hides Himself; He had secretly reserved for Himself seven thousand overcomers who had not bowed the knee to Baal; God's activity was so hidden that not even the prophet Elijah knew anything about it.