And the Lord said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing"? (Gen 18,17)

What a difference the relationship between God and Abraham has undergone since its beginning! At that time God approached Abram on his level of understanding and offered him His promises if he would follow Him. God always approaches man in this way: on his own level of understanding. It does not mean that the man then understands everything correctly or that his understanding is not limited. On the contrary: if we continue on the right path, we are continually surprised again and again as our perception expands and our understanding develops and with it our vision of the world. When a person changes within, his view of things around him changes. His new perspective seems true to him, just as the one he had before, even though it was actually different. We often think that everyone else also must see things the same way as we do - the same then and different now, after all, if it is so clear! Because we can only partially detach ourselves from who we are and view things from a distance, we are not fully aware of many changes that have happened to us, and it does not seem to us that we have abandoned much of what used to be "true" but has subsequently turned out to be a delusion.

So Abram seized the promise which had been offered to him. He subsequently experienced God's goodness in several areas of his life, but as every follower of God, he also saw the wilderness season inevitably come. He was tested, taught, transformed. And now, after many years, God had come to visit him, had come to abide, had come with unadulterated trust to the only person to whom he could entrust his secrets. He does not want to withhold from him what he intends to do! God reveals his intentions to his friend Abraham.

True friendship means sharing each other's secrets. Not only does God know us; but to his friends, those who are close to him, he reveals his depths.

But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. (1K 2,10)

For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. (1K 13,12)