Not Seeing Him but Christ Dwelling in You

"No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us." (1 John 4:12)

We have not see God at any time.

Does that frighten or frustrated you?

If we could see God, then H would not be God, because He would not be eternal:

"For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:" (Romans 1: 20)

and then

"Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen." (1 Timothy 1: 17)

and

"6Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7(For we walk by faith, not by sight:)" (2 Corinthians 5: 6-7)

Still, if you are sad because you do not see Him, then consider the deeper revelation. You cannot see Him because He dwells in you.

"1I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing." (John 15: 5)

He is the vine. We cannot thrive apart from Jesus, who is our life (Colossians 3: 4). As branches, we can rest assured that if we are not strong in ourselves then he will not take us away, but rather lift us up, so that we are supported all the more in Himself.

As branches, we cannot begin to see everything about Jesus, for the vine is greater than us, beyond our own scope and field of understanding. Allow this revelation to give you peace about not "seeing" Him, as His greatness exceeds our physical capacity to see.

He dwells in you for your glory:

"To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:" (Colossians 1: 27)

Don't worry that you have not seen God at any time. He knows you (Galatians 4: 9) and lives in you now and forever.