I. In the realm of nature there are hidings of God's power. Though we might become acquainted with the whole created universe of God, we have not exhausted Him. We get lost in our thought of God, and discover afresh that the finite cannot know all the Infinite, and that we have, and must have, only glimpses of His ways and works. See all you can, and after every manifestation you will have to declare there was revelation, but there was the hiding of His power.
II. In revelations of spiritual truth there are hidings of God's power. Revelation, like all other things, has been progressive. There has been growth, education, steady and gradual unfolding of the nature and will of God to men. But while much was given, how much was withheld! Are there not flesh revelations to come, through the power of the promised Teacher of the Church in every age? Have we exhausted the treasury so that the scribes of the kingdom can henceforth bring nothing out of it. The prayer, "Speak, Lord, for Thy servant heareth," will suit every life.
III. In His providence there are hidings of God's power. He does not reveal all He has in store for us, or all that He intends us to be at any one moment, or even in successive periods of our history. "His mercies are new every morning, and fresh every evening," and so their beauty is not lessened, but awakens morning and evening our joy and thankfulness. We do not know for what we are now being prepared. God is educating and disciplining us by various processes. We can see His hand in our life today, but what He intends to bring out of it to-morrow, who can declare? In all human lives there is a hiding of His power, and we have to wait the clear unfolding of His wise and glorious purpose.
W. Braden, Sermons,p. 43.
References: Zechariah 3:4. J. A. Smith, Christian World Pulpit,vol. iii., p. 235; J. Irons, Thursday Penny Pulpit,vol. xi., p. 221.Zechariah 3:6. Spurgeon, Morning by Morning,p. 347.