Why Do We Dig?

It's a good question. Why does anyone dig? Perhaps we wish to hide something. Perhaps we wish to uncover something hidden.

Why would one bury something? Why are things hidden?

If it's the earth we are talking about, we bury things to protect them from harm, from view, or from public knowledge. We dig to reveal precious gems, ores, resources... or to recover things lost.

If it's the scriptures we are talking about, God is the one who has done all the burying. Why did He do it? Why did He bury some things and not others?

Pro 25:2
(2) It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

What a statement. It implies quite a bit... some of it, hidden.

Look at this one:
Joh 3:16
(16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

Wow, there it is just lying there on the dirt. Exposed. There is nothing hidden about that statement, or in it. God did not wish that ANYONE miss it!

Okay, lets look at another, this time a passage:
Exo 33:18 And he (Moses) said, "Please, show me Your glory."
Exo 33:19 Then He (God) said, "I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion."
Exo 33:20 But He said, "You cannot see My face; for no man shall see Me, and live."
Exo 33:21 And the LORD said, "Here is a place by Me, and you shall stand on the rock.
Exo 33:22 So it shall be, while My glory passes by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and will cover you with My hand while I pass by.
Exo 33:23 Then I will take away My hand, and you shall see My back; but My face shall not be seen."

That was a fantastic moment. Can you imagine talking to the Lord in this way and have Him respond to you in like manner? It is what it is. But, it's more than that.
"You shall see my back" - can translate directly from the Hebrew: you shall see what is after Me. In effect... this passage can say: I will show you what comes after.

So, when God hid Moses in 'the Rock', perhaps He showed Moses 'what comes after' -or the future. It is my belief that 'at that moment', God literally took Moses 1500 years into the future and set him upon the Mt. of Transfiguration and revealed to him 'His Glory', that which Moses was asking for.

Regardless - there is much of value that can only be gained by digging. Get your shovel out.