First, you might ask yourself about your basic attitude towards God. 'Do I want to trust Him or to test Him?'

Trust is difficult for us all. The difficulty is that we cannot see God: He hides.

Pope Francis recently gave a very profound reason why God hides.

It is because His love for us is chaste.

This means, according to the Holy Father, 'Chastity is freedom from possessiveness in every sphere of one’s life. Only when love is chaste, is it truly love.

In contrast, when love is possessive, it becomes control.

So, God lets us go our own way, because our love for Him cannot be forced out of us, for then it would be control. But by reading this article, God is already tugging at our heart, to bring us back to Himself.

Even though God hides from us, because of the chaste, nature of His love, He watches us with infinite love, not as a policeman to catch us out; but as a patient, merciful Father.

It is worth reminding ourselves of these facts constantly, to develop a trusting attitude to Him. God is all seeing, all knowing and all loving, but chaste; and therefore hidden.

But if He is all seeing and knowing, He knows and sees our past, present and future, when we can see only a tiny fraction of the present, and only from our own perspective.

The big picture is hidden from us, just as God is, but He sees it and knows it and is creating it now.

If we stay on our own, rejecting God, we have very little to guide us through life, without it ending in disaster.

So testing God, by living as if He does not exist is never a good idea.

When Adam sinned by stopping trusting God, he tried to hide from God in the garden. But God said, 'Where are you?'

Not because He he could not see Adam. The question was deeper. 'Where are you in relation to Me?'

What prevents me from getting to know God? My decision to go my own way, by myself.

In contrast, Jesus never lives alone; but absorbed in His Father's love.