God doesn’t want robots. He could force His presence on us but that would be a kind of violation. Forced intimacy. We have laws against that sort of thing.
A lot of regular folk in this world would marry a millionaire, but not for love. You really can’t blame rich people for wanting to marry other rich people. They’re just looking for true love. But God is like this billionaire in love with a garbage picker in Mumbai. And His capacity for love is infinite so He desires all of us.
God isn’t interested in a relationship where people only think about what they can get from Him, or because they are afraid of Him, or just because His infinite power and knowledge and ever-presence is overwhelming. God doesn’t want to overpower us.
God only invites us. If He were to make Himself visible, do all these amazing miracles all the time, we would be COERCED to surrender to His desire for us. God wants people who truly love Him for who He is. That’s why there’s faith.
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