Question: Why doesn’t Jesus show himself physically to people anymore?

Why doesn’t Jesus show himself physically to people anymore?

This is one of those questions that I asked all the time when I was a kid. I always wondered why it was that I had to grow up in a world where the physical evidence of God was so limited. I heard stories of other people who would “hear” God talking to them, or would “feel” God in their heart, or would “see” God at work in the world around them or even have visions, but none of those experiences ever happened for me. Frankly, it bothered me a lot.
I wrestled with God on this topic for many years, and the one verse that hit me like a sack of potatoes every time I read it was John 20:29.

Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” — John 20:29 NIV

That verse bothered me because Jesus was somehow saying that the people who believed in him with no evidence at all were somehow blessed, and I didn’t feel very blessed.
However, since those days, I’ve come to realize something about how God works. God almost always works on the basis of testimony and relationships. What’s more. I’m okay with it.
God created Adam and spoke with Adam directly, but there’s no evidence He actually spoke to Eve until the day when Adam and Eve got themselves in trouble! There is no evidence that God revealed himself in any direct way to the second human being on the planet!

So, are you ready for a really unsatisfying answer?

I don’t know why God doesn’t reveal himself to people in dramatic physical appearances, but there’s one thing I do know for sure. I don’t need Him to. I’m fully convinced that I have all the evidence I need to put my faith in Him completely.
Finally, and this is an even more scary answer, what right do we have to think that if Jesus revealed himself to us physically, we would even know it was him!? So many people saw Jesus do miracles, even in person, and did not put their faith in him! How arrogant it is to think that if I saw him do a miracle in front of me I would be more receptive than the many who didn’t believe in him 2000 years ago!